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Date: | Sat, 3 May 2008 18:35:23 -0400 |
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Held at home for several things, I managed to get out to the Alum Creek bikepath yesterday morning (along with nearby Ridgewood & Minerva Parks) and Rocky Fork Creek (on the east edge of Gahanna) this morning. Both mornings had many migrants, including nice numbers of flycatchers, thrushes, and warblers. Notables included:
Black-billed Cuckoo - an early individual was foraging in Tanager Woods Park along Alum Creek yesterday.
Crested & Least Flycatchers - numerous individuals were calling along Alum Creek yesterday and along Rocky Fork Creek today; they seem to have been held back by the poor weather in late April and are now coming through en masse.
Vireos - lots of Red-eyed, with fewer numbers of Yellow-throated, Warbling, & Blue-headed.
Thrushes - Wood Thrushes common along Rocky Fork this morning, which has deeper forests than Alum Creek. Also had Veery & Swainsons both mornings.
Warblers - 16 sp yesterday, with the best being a PRAIRIE singing around the edge of Ridgewood Park and the first few Cape Mays in Minerva Park. 13 sp. this morning, with the interesting ones being Magnolia & Black-thr.Blue, both singing in deep forest. On both mornings, Yellow-rumps were the most common, with Nashvilles a close second.
Buntings, Grosbeaks - many Indigo Buntings yesterday (with more open edge habitat), fewer today. The pattern was reversed for Rose-br.Grosbeaks.
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