I spent most of the morning scouting spots for the OBBA2 along this Creek between Circleville and I-71.  The floodplain is wider here than areas further upstream, but the area is more intensively farmed so the riparian strip is thinner.  Some birds of note:

Turkey Vultures - everywhere along the creek.  They seem to be slowly creeping northward

Kestrels - surprisingly common along back road farm fields; I must have seen 8-10 in a few hours.

Osprey - 1 sitting in a tree near the bridge where St.104 crosses Darby Creek

Great Horned Owl - sitting on a distant nest just south of the village of Darbydale

Rough-winged Swallows - my first of the Spring, flying around a small airfield in the town of Fox

Golden-cr.Kinglet - nowhere abundant, but widespread.  I even found them in isolated stands of trees.

Vesper Sparrows - singing in several different locations

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