I stayed close to home, working the parks along the Scioto River from Griggs dam down to Greenlawn dam/Berliner Park.  From the first stop, it was apparent that we were in a good fallout day, with lots of neotropical migrants at every stop.  The main stops were the riparian areas below Griggs dam, below Long Street Dam, and below Greenlawn dam (in Berliner Park), so the emphasis was on forest birds.  Migrants were especially thick at Berliner, since it is larger & more isolated than the others.  Later, an afternoon stop at Blendon Woods confirmed the massive size of the fallout, as Bruce Simpson will post later.  Highlights for the Scioto river parks included:

Flycatchers - Crested, Phoebes at both Griggs & Berliner; E.WoodPewee,Least,& Acadian at Berliner; E.Kingbird @ Griggs

Swallows - Tree, Rough-winged, Bank, Barn, & Cliff all at Griggs, though not in any great numbers

Vireos - 1 Blue-headed at Berliner; Warblings at every stop (25+ in 2.5 hours); 3-4 Red-eyed at Berliner

Wrens,Kinglets,Gnatcatchers - House Wrens abundant at all stops; 2-3 Ruby-crowned Kinglets still at Berliner; large #s of Gnatcatchers at all stops (50+ total)

Thrushes - Veeries at Long St. dam & Berliner; Swainson's calling at Long St. dam & Berliner;  5-6 Wood Thrushes singing & squabbling at Berliner

Warblers - big day for Nashvilles & Yellows; and still lots of yellow-rumps around.  Specifics:
 Yellow - good #s at most stops, topped by 8-10 at Long St. dam
 Parulas - 2-3 at each stop
 Nashville - many at each stop, topped by 10-12 at Berliner; perhaps 30 all morning
 Tennessee - 2 at Long St., 3-4 at Berliner
 Blue-winged - 1 calling along the bikepath at Berliner, an unusual location for them
 Prothonotary - 3 singing below Griggs as well as along the bikepath at Berliner
 Magnolia - 1 at Berliner
 Chesnut-sided - 3-4 at Berliner
 Black-thr.Blue - singing males at both Griggs and Berliner
 Black-thr.Green - 2+ singing birds at each stop
 Blackburnian - 3 singing at Berliner
 Yellow-throated - 1 singing at Griggs (surprisingly scarce for this resident)
 Pine - 1 singing bird by the bridge underpass at Berliner
 Yellow-rumped - most common warbler still, with 35-40 total for the morning
 Palm Warbler - 1-3 at each stop
 Black&White - 2 singing males along the bikepath at Berliner
 Redstart - 1 at Griggs, 3-4 at Berliner
 N.Waterthrush - singing birds at Long St dam & Berliner
 Com.Yellowthroat - 1 singing at Berliner

Buntings & grosbeaks - 2+ Indigos at each stop, 3-4 Rose-br.grosbeaks at each stop
Sparrows - still LOTS of White-throated Sparrows, with 20+ at each stop
Orioles - big influx of Baltimore Orioles, with 6-10 at each stop; 1 Orchard Oriole at Berliner

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