This afternoon Al LaSala and I checked activity along my nest box trail section in Area N of the Hoover Nature Preserve. The Prothonotary Warblers are back in numbers as I counted 22 males singing their lungs out as the females have now returned to the preserve. Scarlet Tanagers were present in unusually good numbers and we located Brown Creepers in the area they nested last year. Now with patience I'll try to locate the nest site. For an afternoon walk [ushered at church in the morning] activity was steady and there was a nice variety of birds. Species of interest included: Double-crested Cormorant Wood Duck Osprey Great Horned Owl Red-headed Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Great Crested Flycatcher Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Cliff Swallow Brown Creeper Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson’s Thrush Wood Thrush Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Scarlet Tanager Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Charlie Bombaci Hoover Nature Preserve **************The Average US Credit Score is 692. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222376999x1201454299/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd=M ay51009AvgfooterNO62) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]