====== Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 23:10:30 +0000 Reply-To: Charles Bombaci <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Ohio birds <[log in to unmask]> From: Charles Bombaci <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Hoover Reservoir, Delaware County MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> =C2=A0 Today Shaune Skinner, AndySchneider and I launched the H.M.S. Hoover= and monitored the northeastern partsof Hoover Reservoir. From the start we= had an omen that we were in for a goodday of birding. As we headed north f= rom the launch ramp our first species wasto our wonderment a Common Loon in= breeding plumage. We almost didn=E2=80=99t pay closeattention as there wer= e numerous Double Crested Cormorants around. Andyrealized it was a Common L= oon and we slowly boated past it wondering what itwas doing on Hoover Reser= voir in June. =C2=A0Shortly afterward we spottedan adult Bald Eagle soaring= over the water. It made several graceful swoopsnear the surface and then f= lew up to the top of a tall tree where there was thenest with the other adu= lt on it. This was a new nest location. The nest I havebeen watching for ye= ars was abandoned earlier this year. It appears the pairhas relocated and i= s retrying to nest this year.=C2=A0My main objective was tomonitor the Prot= honotary Warbler population and determine population trends,territory locat= ions and look for individuals that were banded in previousyears. In that re= gard it was a very good day. We observed 23 males and 5females in the area = we checked today. Ten banded individuals were observed. =C2=A0Yellow-billed= Cuckoos were inabundance as we observed 13. =C2=A0We located multiplewoodp= ecker nest locations. Some had young outside the nest looking for ahandout = whereas the fun was the sites where the young were sticking their headsout = to take in their new world. These included Red-headed Woodpeckers (11),Red-= bellied Woodpeckers, Downy Woodpeckers and Pileated Woodpeckers (5).=C2=A0A= long with the 2 pair ofOsprey in Galena, both on a nest platform and using = a natural nest, we observedother Osprey far south of Galena, close to the S= unbury Road causeway.=C2=A0In total we observed 56species, not bad for mid-= June.=C2=A0Charlie Bombaci=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0H= oover Nature Preserve=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 ______________________________________________________________________ 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=3DOHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]