Monitoring my Prothonotary Warbler nest boxes at Area N of the Hoover Nature Preserve this morning was like watching the buttered pop corn machine at the IMAX. Fledglings were popping up everywhere. I counted 37 adults (21 males and 16 females) and 56 fledglings. I could hear many more males calling and no doubt had a multitude of fledglings that eluded being seen. What a great way to spend the morning. Some additional pleasures in this little Eden were a pair of Northern Parula feeding fledglings; a Wood Duck hen with 8 fuzz balls trailing behind her; Red-headed Woodpeckers bringing food to their nest cavities (3 pairs are nesting in Area N); the adult Osprey feeding the young at the nest platform; and a Great Horned Owl caught napping on the job. A list of the birds observed follows. Charlie Bombaci Hoover Nature Preserve Species: Canada Goose 18 Wood Duck 9 Mallard 10 Double-crested Cormorant 7 Great Blue Heron 4 Green Heron 3 Turkey Vulture 27 Osprey 5 Bald Eagle 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Killdeer 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Ring-billed Gull 1 Mourning Dove 22 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Great Horned Owl 1 Chimney Swift 3 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-headed Woodpecker 5 Red-bellied Woodpecker 8 Downy Woodpecker 10 Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 Acadian Flycatcher 6 Eastern Phoebe 4 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird 3 White-eyed Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 5 Red-eyed Vireo 7 Blue Jay 12 American Crow 8 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 5 Tree Swallow 15 Bank Swallow 4 Cliff Swallow 20 Carolina Chickadee 20 Tufted Titmouse 14 White-breasted Nuthatch 8 House Wren 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Eastern Bluebird 1 Wood Thrush 3 American Robin 17 Gray Catbird 9 European Starling 23 Northern Parula 7 (2 adults & 5 fledglings) Yellow Warbler 1 Yellow-throated Warbler 2 Prothonotary Warbler 93 (37 adults & 56 fledglings) Ovenbird 1 Louisiana Waterthrush 1 Common Yellowthroat 2 Eastern Towhee 1 Song Sparrow 4 Scarlet Tanager 1 Northern Cardinal 19 Indigo Bunting 4 Red-winged Blackbird 5 Common Grackle 18 Baltimore Oriole 1 American Goldfinch 3 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]