Kevin Hall and Adam Cirone joined me today at the Hoover Nature Preserve to monitor Prothonotary Warblers and also to see what else was around. Both these fine young men have helped me with the nest box trail maintenance in the past, for which I am very grateful to them. We covered Oxbow Road, parts of Area N and Area L. The migrants were mostly AWOL, hopefully a temporary situation as there should still be more birds moving through. We only located three species of warbler during the day, Prothonotary (34), Black-and-white (1), and American Redstart (1). We heard several resident Northern Parula but never got a decent sight-line on one. Resident nesting species seen included Great Blue Heron, Green Heron, Wood Duck, Osprey, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Pileated Woodpecker, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Acadian Flycatcher, Eastern Phoebe [with very recently fledged young], Warbling and Red-eyed Vireo, Cliff Swallow, Brown Thrasher, and Baltimore Orioles. Although total activity was slower than expected, the Prothonotary Warblers are doing well and seemed to be everywhere. Charlie Bombaci Hoover Nature Preserve **************Dell Inspiron 15 Laptop: Now in 6 vibrant colors! Shop Dell’s full line of laptops. (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222399266x1201456865/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.doubleclick.net%2Fclk%3B215073777%3B3703434 3%3Bf) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]