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I spent the early morning and lunchtime birding two wooded areas close in to Columbus that function as reasonable migrant traps: Griggs dam and Grandview Heights.  While both held migrants, neither was engulfed in a wave yesterday.  Griggs includes a long, narrow forested strip below the eponymous dam along the Scioto River, and it held some nice, but not unexpected birds.  Grandview was the lunch stop, and was quieter, but also flashed a few good migrants.  Highlights included:

Flycatchers - normal migrants, but decent #s of Pewees and Crested Flycatchers at both sites.  Both sites also had single Acadians, but neither had the more special late Spring empids (Alder, Yellow-bellied)

Swallows - Griggs is one of the best sites in Columbus for diversity, and had all of the common swallows except Martins.  This is one of the few areas in central Ohio to reliably see Bank Swallows because of a colony in the nearby gravel quarries, and Cliff swallows now have a nesting colony on the bridge at Fishinger road, upstream from the dam.

Vireos - several singing Red-eyed at both locations, but Griggs also had several Warbling (since it holds the cottonwoods they crave)

Thrushes - Swainsons were common at both sites, but both also had single Gray-cheeked.  This last week in May is often the best time to actually see this more elusive thrush (as opposed to just hearing them fly over at night).

Warblers - low #s, with only 8 species.  Redstarts were the most common on a list that reads like a primer on late-migrant Spring warblers.  Best were a singing Prothonotary below the dam at Griggs (where it may be on territory) and 2 Canadas plus a skulking Mourning in the parks along Goodale Blvd in Grandview.

Rob Thorn
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