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This morning I monitored my nest boxes at Old Sunbury Road and the
Eastshore Yacht Club at Hoover Reservoir (Delaware County), and then I made a
quick stop at the Area M boardwalk.
The Prothonotaries are fledging rapidly now and its getting hard to keep
track of them. The fledglings initially flutter more than fly to the nearest
perch, usually buttonbush or something similar. After a they grow a little
they work their ways up the trees to more lofty perches. The low perches
combined with their noise makes it fairly easy to locate them when they
initially fledge, but once they get into the foliage it’s another story to spot
them. I had an interesting experience with a father and son that were
fishing at the Area M boardwalk later in the morning. I was telling them about
the nest boxes they kept seeing when I heard a male PROW call nearby. I
suggested I might call him in so they could learn more about the species and
why wetlands are important. I phished and out came not just the male, but
three of the young that had fledged earlier. I think we have two new birding
enthusiasts.
The Bald Eagle nest on the east shore across from Oxbow Road has fledged.
I observed both adults and managed to locate two of three eaglets high up
in cottonwood trees near the nest site. They were calling raucously for the
adults to bring food.
I also spotted a barred owl in the pine grove along Old Sunbury Road as I
headed back to the car. More of note, there are already mudflats forming
along this stretch which can be very good for shorebirds when the habitat is
appropriate. Unless we get significant rain Hoover might give a repeat of
2005 when we located 33 species of shorebirds.
Other than the PROWs at the boardwalk, the most interesting finds were a
Great Egret; following up on an earlier posted observation, at platform #2
there were both adult Osprey and one chick still at the nest, and in a tree
across the expanse there were another two adult Osprey that appeared to be
copulating. It seems rather late for this but what was observed can’t be
explained as any other behavior I can come up with.
A complete list of the morning’s observations follows.
Charlie Bombaci
Hoover nature Preserve
SPECIES LIST
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer
Ring-billed Gull
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Barred Owl
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Baltimore Oriole
House Finch
American Goldfinch House
Sparrow
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