The blustery changing weatyher overnight grounded a good wave of early temperate migrants in Blacklick Woods, a MetroPark in SE Columbus.  The lee (north & east) sides of the woods were fairly bristling with kinglets and sapsuckers, and there were other migrants among them.  Totals for 2 hours of slow walking around the forest trails included:

N.Flicker - 10 - mostly near edges of the woods.
Y-b.Sapsucker - 30 (never out of sight of 1-2, they were everywhere.  I've gone whole years without seeing this many.)
E.Phoebe - 6, mostly around the wood edges; 1 in the vernal pools area
Tree Swallows - 8-10
Brown Creepers - 6+, but probably more as they're easy to overlook here.
Golden-cr.Kinglets - 60+, small groups all along the Beech & Maple loops
Hermit Thrush - 5 (again could have been more, since they're very furtive)
Brown Thrasher - 1, right at entrance
Yellow-rumped Warblers - 15+, not as many as will arrive later
Yellow-throated Warbler - 1, along east side of Maple loop trail
Palm Warbler - 1, along N side of Beech loop trail
Field Sparrows - 2 singing from field edges south of Nature Center
Tree Sparrows - at least 2 still around Nature Center feeders
Fox Sparrows - 5 in various scrubby spots along the loop trails
White-throated Sparrows - 20-25, in small flocks at many locations
Juncos - 5, mostly around picnic areas

The lack of Ruby-cr.Kinglets, Gnatcatchers, Vireos, or larger #s of Yellow-rumps and White-throats leads me to surmise that this wave is mostly migrants from just south of us, in the Cumberland Plateau & Mississippi Valley.   This could mean more waves in the week to come as these other temperate migrants unroll their migration.

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