April 10, 2011 Birding: Char-Mar Ridge Preserve Miller-Paul Road HNP Area M A walk around the trail at Char-Mar Ridge Preserve was highlighted by a cooperative Barred Owl. Later on the drive Char-Mar to the Hoover Nature Preserve I went over to Miller-Paul Road to check a home with new Purple Martin houses. I was rewarded with about 30 Purple Martins on and around the houses. At Area M of the Hoover Nature Preserve the Osprey were putting on a show at the nest platform. Yellow-throated Warblers are present and seem to be establishing territories. The list of species by area follows. Charlie Bombaci Char-Mar Ridge Preserve Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Red-tailed Hawk Mourning Dove Barred Owl Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Robin Brown Thrasher European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler Eastern Towhee Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal American Goldfinch Miller-Paul Road Turkey Vulture Red-tailed Hawk Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove American Crow Horned Lark Purple Martin Tree Swallow Area M, Hoover Nature Preserve Pied-billed Grebe Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk American Coot Ring-billed Gull Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Golden-crowned Kinglet American Robin European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Song Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle ______________________________________________________________________ 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]