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After several days doing volunteer work away from the preserve I got back to
home base today. I did maintenance work on some of my Prothonotary Warbler
nest boxes as I covered one of my blocks for the Ohio Breeding Bird Atlas
project. As we enter mid-July the Prothonotary Warbler numbers have begun to
decline rapidly as the adults begin their migration south. I did find several
adults still feeding fledglings at both Wiese Road and Oxbow Road. In a back
area of Oxbow Road I stumbled onto some very recently fledged Green Herons. With
the pin feathers on their heads they looked like a retro to the heavy metal
bands the kids used to play in the 80's. In the field to the south of Oxbow
Road before the entrance to the preserve I observed an adult Eastern Meadowlark
being pursued by fledglings that still wanted a free lunch. As July winds
down, so does the activity for the atlas project. The songbird pursuit soon to
be replaced by the shorebird pursuit. The water levels at the north end of
Hoover Reservoir are currently down by about 5 ½ feet and mudflats are emerging
everywhere. Although I only saw 5 species today, soon the variety and
quantities will both increase. It should prove to be a good year to visit the
boardwalk at Area M to view shorebirds without having to trudge through the mud
as in past years.
Species observed today include:
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Canada Goose
Mallard
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald eagle (1 adult)
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Ring-billed Gull
Caspian Tern
Morning Dove
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Willow Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Blue Jay
American Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Eastern Bluebird
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Cedar Waxwing
European Starling
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Yellow Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole
American Goldfinch
Charlie Bombaci
Hoover Nature Preserve
Delorme 58 C (2) & (3)
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