This morning Jackie Brown and I led a field trip at the Hoover Nature Preserve for the Delaware County Chapter of the Ohio Young Birders’ Club. We began with the boardwalk at Area M where we used spotting scopes to view the Osprey at the nest platform and Cliff Swallows under the Old 3C Highway bridge. Next I led the group on a tour of Area N to see Prothonotary Warblers. From the trail we were quickly able to view about 4 males singing in the sunlight. This not being up to my acceptable level, I took the group on an off-trail tour to the back area where most of my nest boxes in this section are located (we added about 15 more Prothonotary warblers). We very quickly got sidetracked though when I turn up a pair of Barred Owls. Once we got past the first pair of owls we continued to the back 40 and got sidetracked again when we located a pair of Great Horned Owls (with the assistance of some mobbing crows). Less than 20 yards on we discovered a new fawn curled up in the ground cover. It remained perfectly still as we let the kids view it from a safe distance and then quickly moved on to prevent stressing the fawn. Now in the back area we began seeing Prothonotary Warblers with regularity and heard many more close by. With persistence I was eventually able to call in resident Northern Parula ’s. We also found what is likely one of the Brown Creepers that is nesting in Area N along with many other species the kids and adults enjoyed. As we continued our route we again located one of the Great Horned Owls and viewed it as it looked down at us from its high perch. I crossed over into Area M to return on a different path and we discovered another new fawn curled up in the ground cover. Luck is stumbling into one fawn, discovering two fawns on the same walk was stunner. The kids and the adults, parents and grandparents, all appeared to have had an enjoyable outing . A list of the species we observed includes: Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Mallard Osprey Red-tailed Hawk Ring-billed Gull Mourning Dove Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Wood Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cliff Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird European Starling Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Song Sparrow Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole American Goldfinch House Sparrow Charlie Bombaci Hoover Nature Preserve **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]