"It's 8 AM.  Do you know where your migrants are?"
Migration has slowed to a crawl here in central Ohio.  After a modest fallout along the lower Scioto yesterday, I checked several good migrant traps upstream with even less impressive results.  I found lots of new & prospective residents, but only a few birds that would qualify as bona fide migrants.  Sites surveyed included Long St. dam, Wyman Woods & the Goodale corridor in Grandview, Griggs dam, and Redick Park.  Notables included:

Cormorants - flyovers at several spots emphasized that these birds are a summer fixture here, thanks to the new nesting colony at the McKinley Quarry discovered by OBBA2 volunteer Marcia Brehmer

Herons - Great Blues were common along the river here (due to the same quarry rookery), but no Green Herons or Night Herons could be found.

Yellow-billed Cuckoos - single singing birds were below Long St. dam and Griggs dam.  These are good potential nesting habitat for this species, but they are also one of our latest migrants.

Flycatchers - Wood Pewees were at every stop, even in suburban Grandview.  Grandview also had a calling Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (at the intersection of Broadview & Goodale).

Vireos - singing Red-eyed were at most sops; they'll nest even in suburban areas here.  Warbling were common only at Long St dam, which has lots of Cottonwoods (their favored tree).

Swallows - Cliff Swallows have abandoned their brief colony at the I-670 bridge, but persist at the Fishinger Rd bridge.  Rough-wings were at several spots along the river, but Banks were a no-show at Griggs.

Thrushes - no Swainsons, but singing Wood Thrushes were below Long St dam and Griggs dam (both potential nesting spots).

Warblers - Redstarts at Long St. and Grandview were likely migrants, as was a Blackburnian male singing below Griggs dam.  Likely residents were a singing Parula and Prothonotary below Griggs dam.

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