Spring is Officially here. Today Linda and I checked several areas of the Hoover Nature Preserve and we had Prothonotary Warblers at each. I had a few earlier but today I hit double-digits as it appears a wave of new arrivals came in last night. The areas I checked today included Area M/N, Dustin Road and Twin Bridges. Other warbler species are also showing up at the preserve. The species observed today include: Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose (nesting) Wood Duck Mallard (nesting) Blue-winged Teal Red-breasted Merganser Osprey (nesting) Bald Eagle Sharp-shinned Hawk (nesting) Cooper's Hawk (nesting) Broad-winded Hawk Red-tailed Hawk (nesting) American Coot Killdeer Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker (at nest hole) Downy Woodpecker (at nest hole) Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker (nesting) Eastern Phoebe (nesting) Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow (nesting in boxes) Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren (gathering nest material) House Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird American Robin (nesting) European Starling Northern Parula Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle (nesting) Brown-headed Cowbird House Finch (nesting) American Goldfinch House Sparrow (nesting) Charlie Bombaci Hoover Nature Preserve **************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]