I spent the morning hiking around several of the trails in the wooded north end of Alum Creek reservoir.  The wooded ravines along the shoreline from St 37 north are one of the few tracts of woods large enough in central Ohio to hold rarer forest species.  I specifically hiked the Maple Hollow and Hunter's Hollow Trails, which face each other across the Howard Rd bridge.  The list for 2 hours of hiking:
Turkey Vultures
Red-shouldered Hawk (calling in Maple Hollow)
Barred Owl (calling in Hunter's Hollow)
Mourning Doves
Yellow-billed Cuckoos (1 singing along each trail)
Ruby-thr.Hummingbirds
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpeckers
Downy Woodpeckers
Hairy Woodpeckers
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Pileated Woodpeckers (1 on MH, 2 on HH)
E.Wood Pewees
Acadian Flycatchers (16 on MH, 12 on HH; they love the ravines here)
Willow Flycatcher - 1 calling in marsh near bridge
E.Phoebe
Great Crssted Flycatchers
E. Kingbirds (around bridge)
Rough-winged Swallows
Yellow-thr.Vireos (2 on MH, 1 on HH)
White-eyed Vireo (1 singing in marsh near bridge)
Red-eyed Vireos (10 on MH, 8 on HH)
Blue Jays
American Crows (feeding begging juvenile)
Carolina Chickadees
Tufted Titmice
White-br. Nuthatches
Wood Thrushes
American Robins
Gray Catbirds
Euro Starlings
Cedar Waxwings
Yellow Warblers (pair with fledgling, in marsh near bridge)
Parula Warbler
Yellow-thr. Warbler
Cerulean Warbler (1 singing along MH)
Ovenbird (1 singing along HH)
La. Waterthrushes (calling birds along each trail)
Kentucky Warbler (singing along HH)
Hooded Warblers (3 singing along HH)
Common Yellowthroats
Scarlet Tanagers
Indigo Buntings
Chipping Sparrows
Field Sparrows (in meadow next to boat launch near bridge)
Song Sparrows
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackles
Brown-headed Cowbirds
Baltimore Orioles
House Finches
American Goldfinches
House Sparrows

Expected but missed: Cooper's Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Wild Turkey, Warbling Vireo, American Redstart, Black&White Warbler, Summer Tanager, Rose-br.Grosbeak

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