With limited time, I focused on some parkland close to home: the Big Walnut greenbelt (Ridenour-WoodsideGreen-Academy Parks) and Gahanna Woods.  It was a good choice, as migration appears to be picking up speed here, with lots of temperate migrants.  Highlights included:

Woodpeckers - Pileateds and Sapsuckers in both areas.  The sapsuckers seemed especially lively, zooming between trees and calling; I even found one in my yard.

Phoebes - still strong numbers, with multiple indiviuals at both sites

Swallows - a few Tree Swallows were joined by an early singing Barn Swallow at Gahanna Woods

Brown Creepers - good numbers at both spots; they're clearly having a fairly good migration now.  One was even singing deep in Gahanna Woods.

Winter Wrens - several of them were along the Greenbelt, and the Woods had one as well.  No House Wrens yet, however.

Kinglets - Golden-crowns still numerous, but I found multiple Ruby-crowns at both locations today, the first time that's happened this season.

Gnatcatchers - several singing birds in Gahanna Woods, and 1-2 along the Greenbelt.  Hard to say if they're migrants or recently-arrived residents.

Warblers - multiple Yellow-throated warblers singing along Big Walnut Creek, wherever there were large groups of Sycamore trees.  Gahanna Woods countered with small flocks of Yellow-rumps, plus a singing Common Yellowthroat

Sparrows - 7 species at Gahanna Woods included 2 Savannahs, 1 Swamp, and 1 Fox along with more expected species (Song, Chipping, Field, White-throated).  The Greenbelt had 2 Foxes and small flocks of White-throats.

Blackbirds - along with the expected redwings-grackles-cowbirds, Gahanna Woods had a female RUSTY, the first of this species that I've seen this migration.

Finches - a singing Purple Finch at Gahanna Woods represented a rather late-ish migrant for this species in central Ohio.  But then, what hasn't been late this weird Spring so far?

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