I spent the morning birding along the riparian strips of this park in south Columbus, since it is usually a good concentrating area for migrants.  The warm weather seems to be jump-starting migration, and there were lots of temperate migrants around, along with a few neotropicals.  Highlights included:

woodpeckers - many, including 4-5 sapsuckers and 2 Pileated.  The Confluence area seemed to have the most activity.

swallows - the by-now-common refrain of 'Tree, Rough-winged, & Barn' held up here as well, with Tree swallows fighting over nest cavities, and Rough-wings prospecting for streamside burrows

vireos - my first Blue-headed of the season was singing along the main bikepath near the Oxbow area.

kinglets,gnatcatchers - Ruby-crowns ascendant, with 12+ in a little over 2 hours, but gnatcatchers were the real species du jour, with 22+ in the same period

thrushes,mimids - a few Hermits, but no Wood thrushes yet (and this is a great place for finding them).  2 singing Mockingbirds and 1 thrasher rounded out the mimids.

warblers - first Yellow and Prothonotary (both around the Confluence area), which seems to be part of a broad influx of these into the state today.  4-5 Yellow-throateds were scattered all along the riparian areas.  7+ Yellow-rumps and a single Pine filled out the warbler list.

sparrows - still plenty of small flocks of White-throats, but no White-crowns could be found (and this is a good place for them). Field Sparrows were also common and widespread, with many of them presumably migrants.

The morning was very birdy, with lots of migrants from the start.  This balmy weather should bring more early migrants tomorrow, and it might be a great time to check out other trap areas like Greenlawn cemetery, Blendon Woods, or Darby Creek.

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