I spend a good part of today monitoring my Prothonotary Warbler nest box trail. The females are back and things are now getting down to serious business. The males have defined their territory boundaries and the females are pairing up. I observed the females busily make trip after trip collecting material and bringing it to their nest box or natural cavity. It won't be long before there are eggs in the nests.If the weather permits I may be able to make the first circuit of the nest box zones. I now have 2 zones down and 14 zones to go. While checking the nest boxes I did pay some attention to other activity around me. Warblers observes along with the Prothonotary Warblers were Nashville, Northern Parula, Yellow, Chestnut-sided, Yellow-rumped, Black-throated Green, Yellow-throated, Palm, American Redstart, Louisiana Waterthrush and Common Yellowthroat. Vireos included Yellow-throated, Warbling and Red-eyed. Also, Scarlet Tanager, Green Heron, Bald Eagle, Spotted Sandpiper and Brown Creeper. On a related note, today I observed 3 Prothonotary Warbler males that we banded during the spring of 2004. Everyone of them was within 200 feet of the location where it was banded. Charlie Bombaci Hoover Nature Preserve **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]