Activity is picking up at the Hoover Nature Preserve. Tonight's southerly winds should bring in additional activity. Today (Tuesday May 1) there were Prothonotary Warblers along the Area M Boardwalk and in Area N along the old roadbed and the interior areas. Other warblers seen or heard included Yellow-throated Warblers, Northern Parula, Black-throated Green Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler and Palm Warbler. Other notable species were Hermit Thrush, Wood Thrush, Bonaparte Gill, Herring Gull, Osprey, Broad-winged Hawk, Cliff Swallow, Wood Duck, Red-headed Woodpeckers, Warbling Vireo, Gray Catbird, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Ruby-crowned Kinglet and Eastern Towhee. Hoover Meadows was quiet although several Yellow Warblers were calling. Char-Mar Preservation Park had Baltimore oriole, Red-eyed Vireo, Ruby-crowned Kinglets and Pine Warblers. Charlie Bombaci ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]