Again strapped for time, I opted to look for landbird fallout at Hoover.  For me, this means eschewing the north-end flats and focusing on Oxbow Island, Mudhen Marsh and the Sunbury causeway.  Oxbow particularly is probably the best landbird 'trap' in the vicinity, and was very active this morning.  Highlights of 1 hour at Oxbow and 1 hour split between the others included:

Woodpeckers - all the common ones plus Sapsucker (Oxbow) and Red-headed (Mudhen).  Look for the Red-headed in the dead trees along the slough next to the road bridge; there were 2 adults and a juvenile there.

Swifts - a flock of 30+ was swirling over Oxbow much of the morning

Hummingbird - 1 Ruby-throat was foraging on Oxbow

Flycatchers - 3+ Pewees (Oxbow), 1 Phoebe (Mudhen), 1 Least (Oxbow)

Vireos - none!

Thrushes - Swainson's (1-3 at all sites), E.Bluebird (flock of 6 at Oxbow)

Mimids - all 3 at Oxbow; Catbirds common at all sites

Cedar Waxwings - many small flocks at Oxbow, 160+ total

Warblers - diversity middling, but numbers good, especially at Oxbow where they appeared to 'pile up":  Nashville (2), Tennessee (6+), Parula (3 Oxbow),Black-thr.Green (1 Oxbow, 2 Mudhen), Chesnut-sided (1 Mudhen), Cape May (10+ all sites), Blackpoll (12+ all sites), Yellow--rumps (10+ Oxbow), Redstart (2 Oxbow)

Tanagers - only 1 Scarlet (at Mudhen)

Grosbeaks-Buntings - singles of both on Oxbow

Sparrows - flock of Chipping (10+) at Oxbow, along with 5-6 White-throats

You could stand in the parking lot just at the entrance to Oxbow and watch as birds flew in from the north along the west shore of the lake.  Small flocks would fly by or work their way through the trees out onto the island.  Mudhen, which is further south along the shore, appears to be in a 'migrant shadow', since it didn't have near the numbers as on the Island.  At the Sunbury causeway, you could see birds flying south from Oxbow and Deer Islands, but they would overfly the causeway and keep heading south.  The causeway did have large numbers of gulls, geese, and cormorants, along with a young Bald Eagle that swooped in to grab a fish.

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