Before heading off to join the throngs birding Blendon Woods this morning, I visited this isolated ravine park in east Columbus, and was floored by the fallout.  In fact, it was the birding here that convinced me to go to Blendon (and in some ways, Mock was better).  Highlights in 30 minutes included

Flycatchers - Pewees (3), Acadian (2), Great Crested
Swallows - Rough-winged, Barn, Tree
Vireos - Red-eyed (5+), Warbling, Yellow-throated
Wrens,Gnatcatcher - House Wren (5+), Carolina, Blue-grayGnatcatcher (4)
Thrushes - Wood, Swainsons (5)
Mimids - Catbirds (6+), Brown Thrasher
Warblers - 16 species: Yellow, Parula (2), Nashville, Tennessee (3), Magnolia, Chesnut-sided(3), Black-thr.Blue, Black-thr.Green (4), Yellow-throated, Yellow-rumped (3), Blackburnian (2), Blackpoll, Amer.Redstart (4), Ovenbird (5), CommonYellowthroat, Kentucky
Sparrows - Chipping, Field, Song, White-throated
Others - Scarlet Tanager (2), IndigoBunting (3), Rose-br.Grosbeak (3), BaltOriole

The number of birds in a rather small park was startling, and spoke to a big fallout.  Later at Blendon I had more species, but the density of birds was far less; there were times at the MetroPark when we didn't have a bird.  There's just more forest for them to hide in at Blendon, as well as a wider array of habitats.

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