I took an hour yesterday and today to visit two good woodlot migrant traps, Gahanna Woods yesterday and Jefferson Township Park Woods today, and found them bustling with migrants. Both are mature mixed woods with lush understory and vernal pools. Both had among the first flycatchers, tanagers, buntings, and grosbeaks of the season for me, as well as a good diversity of warblers. Highlights included:
Flycatchers - Great Cresteds in GW yesterday, E.Wood Pewees and Acadians in JTPW today
Vireos - Blue-headed, Yellow-throated, and 2-4 Red-eyed were at each woods, and JTPW also had a singing Warbling
Kinglets,Gnatcatchers - 1-2 Ruby-crowns at each woods, along with 5-8 Gnatcatchers
Thrushes - only Wood Thrushes, but 3-4 at each woods
Mimids - plenty of Gray Catbirds at each woods, but GW also had a singing Brown Thrasher
Warblers - GW had 15: Yellow, Nashville (5), Tennessee (2), Magnolia (2), Chesnut-sided (3), Black-thr.Blue, Black-thr.Green (5), Blackburnian (6), Yellow-rumped (15), Black&White (2), AmRestart, Ovenbird(2), N.Waterthrush, Hooded (2), Com.Yellowthroat (3)
JTPW had 13: Yellow, Nashville (4), Tennessee, Golden-winged, Magnolia, Chesnut-sided (5), Black-thr.Green (3), Blackburnian (2), Yellow-rumped (10), Palm, Black&White, AmRedstart, Ovenbird
Buntings,Grosbeaks - both had Rose-br.grosbeaks, but JTPW had 4. Only JTPW had Indigo Buntings (2-3)
Tanagers - both had 1-2 Scarlets. Neither had Summer tanagers.
Sparrows - both had the expected Chipping-Field-Song, but they also still ahd small flocks of White-throateds
Orioles - both had Baltimore Orioles, but not Orchards
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