The Prothonotary Warblers at the Hoover Nature Preserve have been fledging at a rate equal to buttered popcorn at a Cineplex. Even with the lack of rain in Central Ohio and the dropping water level at Hoover Reservoir they appear to be having another very successful year. Thursday Jim Fry and I watched the adults feeding the hatchlings at a nest along the Big Walnut Creek and Friday they were fledged and begging for food. There are still many nests that have yet to fledge, but as a whole they seem to be fledging earlier than normal. They have plenty of company as I’ve been encountering recent fledglings everywhere in my blocks for the Ohio Breeding Bird Atlas. Among the species confirmed this week as breeding via fledglings were: Green Heron Wood Duck Wild Turkey Killdeer Great Horn Owl Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Great Crested Flycatcher White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo Tree Swallow Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Wood Thrush Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Northern Parula Prothonotary Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Scarlet Tanager Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Orchard Oriole 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]