This morning began with me sitting in the dentist chair. I don’t mind dentist checkups except if they are scheduled during the spring migration. When I got home a visiting friend who lives at Sanibel Island, Florida, asked to see a Prothonotary Warbler. She has seen Limpkins, but never a Prothonotary Warbler. We took her to Oxbow Road, the nearest part of my nest box trail from our home, and she got to watch three males in the sunlight only 10 to 40 feet from her. While there we also viewed Yellow Warblers, Magnolia Warblers, White-eyed Vireos, Baltimore Orioles and a Green Heron. Not a bad list for a 10 minute visit to the area. After lunch I got down to the serious business of locating territorial pairs of Prothonotary Warblers and finding their nest location. I worked Area L and along Little Walnut Creek and was able to locate 17 nest sites, 12 in my nest boxes and 5 at natural cavities. I noted other species of interest as I went along my route including Eastern Phoebe fledglings and a Ruby-throated Hummingbird that buzzed me to investigated the orange marker ribbons looped on my belt. When it couldn’t find an opening to this new strange flower, it flew off seeking something more productive. Birds observed included: Green Heron Wood Duck Yellow-billed Cuckoo Barred Owl Ruby-throated Hummingbird Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Cliff Swallow Swainson’s Thrush Wood Thrush Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Common Yellowthroat Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Indigo Bunting Baltimore Oriole Charlie Bombaci Hoover Nature Preserve **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221322941x1201367178/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=115&bcd =Mayfooter51809NO115) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]