I made an early stop at this far west Dublin MetroPark, biking its multi-use path to check grasslands and wood-edges before the heat built up.  If you go, be aware that Hyland-Croy Rd is being restructured, so you have to detour either west (Industrial Parkway) or east (Avery Rd) to get up to McKitrick Rd to access the upper parts of the Park.  I checked grassland patches around the entrance road, near the Windmill site, and south of McKitrick Rd., as well as woodlots around the north parking lots and along McKitrick.  Notables included:

Raptors - Red-shouldered & Red-tailed Hawks were both calling sporadically from the north woodlots, and a Cooper's was cackling in the McKitrick woods

E.Kingbirds - birds were in the entrance grasslands and those south of McKitrick Rd

Swallows - plenty of Barns and Trees around the north fields.  The Martin house at the entrance road corral (for the bridle trail) has a pair of Purple Martins, and the nearby corral fence had lots of chittering Tree Swallow fledglings.

Tanagers - singing Scarlet tanagers were in both the northwest woodlot and McKitrick woods, while no Summers were found.

Grasshopper Sparrows - 2-3 were along the entrance road fields, but they were scarcer up by the windmill grasslands

No Savannah, Vesper, or Henslow's Sparrows, all of which are residents in this park.  The latter 2 may just not have been singing this morning, but habitat may be too tall for Savannahs here.

E.Meadowlarks - 2 were singing along the entrance rd. and in the grasslands south of McKitrick, while another was in the windmill grasslands.  They seemed scarce.

Bobolinks - 6-8 were singing and displaying along the bikepath through the windmill grasslands

Dickcissel - I had 1 calling in the first big grassland south of McKitrick, but found none in the windmill grasslands

Orchard Oriole - a male was singing near the treeline at the northwest edge of the windmill grasslands

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