After five days stuck indoors with a pulled back muscle cabin fever begins to get to you. Today Linda got me out for the sake of sanity. We went to the Old Sunbury Road section of the Hoover Nature Preserve to check on my Prothonotary Warbler Nest boxes. Observation only, no wading to the nest boxes. From the south entrance to the trail to the second old bridge at the north we located 15 singing male Prothonotary Warblers and we observed females bringing nest materials to 2 of the boxes. The 2 sites with females constructing nests were duly recorded as "active nest sites". I've now made the first monitoring check at 4 of my 14 nest box areas and I have confirmed 24 active nest sites and 58 males on territory. Hopefully the other 34 territories will be eventually confirmed as nest sites. Next week, weather permitting, I will try to get to the other 10 areas to check for activity. While walking along the old road bed on the east shore Linda and I had some other notable observations this morning including 3 species of terns, multiple species of warblers and some additional enjoyable observations. Species observed, in part, included: ** = Evidence of nesting Double-crested Cormorant (approximately 200 immature's near Pelican Island) Caspian Tern (5) Common Tern (11) Black Tern (6) Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1) Swainson's Thrush (3) **Wood Thrush (3) **Yellow Warbler (10) Magnolia Warbler (3) Cape May Warbler (2) American Redstart (12) **Prothonotary Warbler (17) **Louisiana Waterthrush (2) **Common Yellowthroat (2) **Scarlet Tanager (4) White-crowned Sparrow (1) **Indigo Bunting (4) **Orchard Oriole (2) **Baltimore Oriole (14) 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]