This morning I walked parts of Area's M & N of the Hoover Nature Preserve in southern Delaware County. The water levels have risen dramatically in the past week and the knee height boots I had were not high enough to get into the entire back regions of my nest box trail. Hip boots next trip! However, the activity in the parts I managed to check was a good sign. I located 27 male Prothonotary Warblers and watched them collecting moss to build their false nests in anticipation of the soon to arrive females. How a male Prothonotary Warbler can sign so loud with a beak full of moss still amazes me. Other activity was steady and varied with 9 species of warblers, 5 species of thrush and the usual other expected residents. Observed species included, in part: Double-crested Cormorant Wood Duck Blue-winged Teal Osprey Barred Owl Chimney Swift Red-headed Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-gray Gnatcatchers Veery Gray-checked Thrush Swainson’s Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Gray Catbird Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Palm Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Baltimore Oriole Charlie Bombaci Hoover Nature Preserve **************Join ChristianMingle.com® FREE! Meet Christian Singles in your area. Start now! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221673648x1201419171/aol?redir=http://www.christianmingle.com/campaign.html%3Fcat%3Dadbuy%26 src%3Dplatforma%26adid%3Dfooter:050109%26newurl%3Dreg_path.html) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]