Have you every felt that you were being taunted by a bird and it's buddies? This morning Rick and Richard Oxley joined me at the preserve. It seems that everywhere we went Yellow-billed Cuckoos were calling, however, none cooperated and came into view. We had to hear close to 30 individuals as we covered various areas in the preserve. As we would walk away from a bird we could hear that was close but hidden in the foliage, it would invariably give us a departing call, instead of cuckoo it was more like gotcha. We had better luck with the other birds. There were many Prothonotary Warblers calling and many were nice enough to come out into the open. We also watched a pair feeding hatchlings at their nest cavity. We observed a hummingbird nest with a very active female and a male Northern Parula dropped low to provide us with a nice show. I raised my classification for Wood Thrush for the Ohio Breeding Bird Atlas as we observed fledglings being fed by an adult. Charlie Bombaci Hoover Nature Preserve Delorme 58 C (2) & (3) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]