Today Shuane Skinner, her father, Jim Skinner and I headed out again on Shanue’s boat, the “SS Hoover” to monitor areas for the OBBA and Prothonotary Warbler territories. Rumor has it that Shaune’s boat has a designer flag reading “Warning, This Boat Stops for Birds.” The day was a great success as we located numerous species. Highlights included: 2 Bald Eagles (1 adult and 1 immature, a 3rd year bird based on its plumage); numerous Prothonotary Warblers, with 10 new locations GPS’d in, bringing the 2007 count at Hoover to 157; we lost count of the Green Herons which seem to be holding their own at Hoover; Hooded Mergansers; Osprey (the 2 adults and young at the platform in Area M and another adult that flew over the nest causing the resident male to become extremely agitated; and Yellow-billed Cuckoos doing flyovers. Our list for the day includes: Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Green Heron Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Hooded Merganser Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Cooper’s Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Ring-billed Gull Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Wood-Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Blue Jay American Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher American Robin Gray Catbird Cedar Waxwing European Starling Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Northern Parula Prothonotary Warbler Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting Song Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole American Goldfinch 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]