Today Dr. Ransome Williams joined me for a day at the Hoover Nature Preserve. Each spring Ransome likes to come to the preserve to enjoy the Prothonotary Warblers and then kid a friend who lives in the southwest that has never seen one. Ransome is a wonderful gentleman and we have a great time as I take him about the preserve. The Prothonotary Warblers were their cooperative selves and put on a show for us. I had my camera with me and took what I hope to be great pictures of them at nest boxes, natural cavities and perching in the open to sing for us. We easily passed double-digits for the Prothonotary Warblers, however, our other target species for the morning decided not to be as cooperative. We heard numerous Yellow-billed Cuckoos, some as close as ten feet away, but in thick enough that we couldn't get a decent look at them. The one that did come out, did so as it flew away from us. I guess we could sub-title it the “ going-away-bird”. The Osprey at Area M was standing over the nest and appeared to be feeding the hatchlings. Species of interest we observed included: Double-crested Cormorant Green Heron Wood Duck Osprey Belted Kingfisher Eastern Wood-Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Cliff Swallow Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Brown Thrasher Cedar Waxwing Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Yellow Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Indigo Bunting Baltimore Oriole 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]