My dad and I birded at Hiestand Woods which is next to the reservoirs in Van
Wert County and right across from the Willow Bend Golf course.  It was
surprising good for such a small area.  We saw the following in about 2
hours:

Yellow Rumps-literally dozens
Blue Gray Gnatcatchers-also literally dozens
Brown Creepers-2
Blue Headed Vireo
Worm Eating Warbler
House Wrens-2
Carolina Wrens-2
Mockingbird
Palm Warbler
Phoebes-nest building
Yellow Warbler-1
Wood Thrushes-2
Louisiana Waterthrush-1
Ruby Crowned Kinglets-several
Red-Bellied-in nesting hole-several
Flickers-2
Downys-several
Coopers Hawk
Red Tail
Goldfinches-numerous
Cowbirds-numerous

I would also like to comment that I have never seen or heard so many
Chipping Sparrows and Grackles in Van Wert County as there are this year.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Royse" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 5:58 PM
Subject: [Ohio-birds] Columbus migrants - April 30


> The south winds last night brought in some new migrants here along the
> Scioto River in Columbus. I picked up a few new species for the year, but
> nothing that hasn't already been widely reported elsewhere. At this point
> it seems to be the trees and not the weather that is keeping the migration
> slower than usual.
>
> Birds along my local stretch of the Scioto during a 30 min. walk late this
> morning produced the following sightings :
>
> 1 Great Crested Flycatcher
> 1 White-eyed Vireo
> 3 Blue-headed Vireos
> 1 Yellow-throated Vireo
> 2 Warbling Vireos
> 2 Red-eyed Vireos
> 2 House Wrens
> 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglets
> 7 pairs of Blue-gray Gnatcatchers
> 2 Swainson's Thrushes
> 1 Wood Thrush
> 3 Gray Catbirds
> 1 Tennessee Warbler
> 7 Nashville Warblers
> 3 Yellow Warblers
> 48 Yellow-rumped Warblers
> 1 Black-throated Green Warbler
> 1 Blackburnian Warbler
> 4 Yellow-throated Warblers
> 1 Pine Warbler (female)
> 2 Palm Warblers
> 1 Black-and-white Warbler
> 1 Ovenbird
> 2 Baltimore Orioles
>
> Yellow-rumps are still abundant here, but the numbers of Ruby-cr Kinglets
> and Palm Warblers have thinned a bit since the last infusion of new birds.
> I'm still hoping for a territorial Prothonotary to show up here before I
> break down and head to Hoover or Spring Valley for that tick on my
> yearlist.
>
> This evening a walk on the bike path on the other side of the river S of
> 5th Ave. wasn't very productive. Besides the resident Warbling Vireos, B-g
> Gnatcatchers and Yellow-thr Warblers, the only passerines of note were ~12
> Yellow-rumped, 2 Nashville, 1 Yellow, and 3 Palm Warblers. An Osprey was a
> flyover.  Besides getting some excersise, the walk to the bridges at the
> Grandview exits of I-670 was still worthwhile with the arrival of the
> Cliff Swallows in numbers. At least 50 pairs are now occupying and
> retouching last year's nests. I didn't see any new nest building from from
> scratch by any of them.
>
> Bob Royse, Columbus
>
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