9/28--BDMP--.4 mi. walk to Oak Savannah (early successional stages,
mixed broadleaf shrub/woody vines/small deciduous saplings of varying
hieghts, mostly oak, among open areas of dense tall weeds/goldenrod,
edge/margins of mature deciduous, mixed pine/deciduous)

10 am.--2 hrs.   Cool to hot.  Mixed migrants early to not.    Brief
encounter with traveling migrants, an interesting assortment, some in
full song, early, most foraging low often in the goldenrod, moving N
along the trail, often rapidly.

Black-billed Cuckoo 1
Red-headed Woodpecker  5 (2 ad./3 imm., latter being flybys)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  4

Eastern Wood-pewee  3
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher  2 (within upper levels, SONGs, calls, often)
Alder Flycatcher  2 (mid levels and lower, foraging in open, calls)
Least Flycatcher  6
Eastern Phoebe  10

Blue-headed Vireo  6 (at least one in full song)
Warbling Vireo 1 (late)
Philadelphia Vireo  8 (low levels, foraging in goldenrod/thickets, one
in full song)

Gray cheeked Thrush  3
Swainson's Thrush  2

Tennessee Warbler  15
Orange crowned Warbler  6
Nashville Warbler  10
Chestnut sided Warbler  5
Magnolia Warbler  5
Cape May Warbler 20
Black throated Blue Warbler  5
Black-throated Green Warbler  10
Blackburnian Warbler  10
Yellow-throated Warbler  2 (late)
Bay-breasted Warbler  28 (8 in view at once, many colorful males)
Black/White  4
American Redstart  12 (1 ad. full pl. male)
Ovenbird  3
Mourning Warbler  1 (imm. f., late)
Wilson's Warbler  10
Canada Warbler  8

Summer Tanager  4
Scarlet Tanager  2
Indigo Bunting  15
Blue Grosbeak  1 (in and out of goldenrod, brown, prob. juv.)
Lincoln's Sparrow  3


Cooler mornings ahead, so some opportunities for observing these
migrant flocks, interesting mixtures, often containing late departures
should be ahead!

Good birding,

--
David Tan
Columbus
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