Sorry for the late post.  I was so exhausted when I got home yesterday 
that it was all I could do to scrounge dinner for myself.
My first stop of the day yesterday was Lazelle Woods where I checked boxes 
and then did some birding.  The best bird there was my first of season 
blue gray gnatcatcher.  After reading postings about them in other parts 
of the state, I was beginning to worry that they'd never come to Columbus.

The next stop was the Alum Creek bike trail in Westerville where I saw my 
first of season yellow-throated warbler.  Yellow-Rumped Warblers and White-
Throated Sparrows abouned.  As usual, there were a lot of Eastern 
Bluebirds flying around at that location.

Since I was in the neighborhood, I decided to stop at Sharon Woods and see 
if the Common Loon was still on Schrock Lake.  It was but it stayed far 
from shore making photo-ops and good looks impossible.  I was somewhat 
disappointed so I went to Antrim Lake where I expected to see at least one 
loon.

I arrived at Antrim Lake shortly after noon and immediately saw four 
Common Loons.  I even got to watch one of them take off.  It was fun 
watching him run across the surface of the water.  A walk around the lake 
turned up two more Commom Loons, three Lesser Scaup, and a Horned Grebe in 
non breeding plumage.  By the time I left around 3:30, there were still 
five loons on the Lake.  I went back there today after work but only two 
loons remain.  The scaup were still there but the grebe was nowhere to be 
seen.

Al La Sala
Columbus, OH

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