Today I hosted Jim O'Boyle and Steve Lee from Caesar Creek Lake. They were visiting the Hoover Nature Preserve to do research for establishing a Prothonotary Warbler Nest Box Trail at Caesar Lake. As they drove north from Waynesville to Hoover Reservoir it rained cats and dogs, but when they arrived at my place the rains stopped and we were able to go to the preserve without getting soaked. Our purpose was research for nest box trails rather than birding, but as we visited Mudhen Marsh, Oxbow Road and Area N, and observed the bay at Dustin Road from the vehicle, we had some nice observations.. Waterfowl numbers were decent at the north end of Hoover Reservoir with some nice size rafts about. A sure sign of spring was the presence of Eastern Phoebes. Some of the species present were: Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Great Blue Heron Wood Duck American Black Duck Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Cooper's Hawk Eastern Phoebe Brown Creeper Golden-crowned Kinglet and the usual cast of common species Charlie Bombaci Hoover Nature Preserve **************Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15?ncid=aolhom00030000000001) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]