Fellow birders, Just got back from a beautiful walk in the snow covered woods. It was still snowing quite hard, and saw virtually no birds. They all stayed back at the feeders. Ended up at the recently improved beaver dam than now keeps about 5 to 10 more acres flooded for most of the year. These thoughtful animals have created a near perfect habitat for Prothonotary warblers, not unlike area M above Hoover Dam. It is my intention to make it even more perfect by putting up a dozen or so nest boxes. I have already found the correct dimensions on line, and am about to begin a search for more helpful info as soon as I hang up here. It occured to me that there are among you those that could point me in the right direction, and perhaps give me some general advice based on your own experience. One of you might even be named Charlie. Given the excellent habitat we have here, I fully expect this project to work, and we should have nesting Prothonotaries within a year or so. Will keep you "posted". Joe Faulkner Perry County, Ohio DeLorme 69,B,7 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]