Today I checked the Old Sunbury Road & East Shore Yacht Club areas of my Prothonotary Warbler nest box trail. To my delight I located multiple territories, observed 19 male and 3 female Prothonotary Warblers including a pair that were feeding young in a nest box. From the time I neared the water I walked over a mile without being out of the sounds of singing Prothonotary Warblers. That totals 43 male Prothonotary Warblers on territory over the last two days while covering just a few of the areas where I have nest boxes. It looks like a good season for the home team. I might have a few more in the last area but I had to skip several groups of nest boxes as they lie almost directly below the nesting Bald Eagles. I do my best to avoid going into the buffer zone for the eagle nest. The morning held a few other surprises including a breeding plumage Common Loon close to one of the small islands in the area. Likely just late going through but who knows, maybe it will hang around for the summer. One of the resident Barred Owls was roosting in a pine grove. A Yellow-breasted Chat was calling from the edge of a preserve Bluebird field. Red-headed Woodpeckers are nesting over water in a dead tree about 10 feet from shore. Other warblers observed in single numbers were Blue-winged Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Yellow Warbler, Northern Parula and Louisiana Waterthrush, all of which nest locally. A list of the morning's species observed follows. Charlie Bombaci Hoover Nature Preserve SPECIES LIST Common Loon Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Green Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Osprey Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk Killdeer Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Barred Owl Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Blue-winged Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Yellow-breasted Chat Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow ______________________________________________________________________ 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]