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I spent the early morning biking down the Alum Creek Greenway, from Innis Park down to Mock Park.  The good was that there were lots of birds for such an urban greenbelt.
The good:
5 flycatchers: Pewee, Acadian, Willow, Phoebe, Great Crested
4 warblers: Yellow, Parula, Yellow-throated, Com.Yellowthroat, and Black&White (one of the few Columbus strays this summer)
plenty of Warbling & Red-eyed Vireos
both Baltimore & Orchard orioles

The not-so-good:  no Red-shouldered hawks or Wild Turkeys, both of which were here last summer.  Much of the upland forest fragments here are turning into housing as the economy rebounds, making scarce habitat even scarcer.
No Belted Kingfishers and few Rough-winged Swallows.  The recent flooding may have cut short their nesting attempts.

The stinky:  I noticed the pervasive odor of sewage at several places along the trail, especially where the trail had been recently flooded.  Columbus has a checkered history of sewer overflows during heavy rains...like the one over the weekend..., and it looks like that happened here.  Several sewer covers had fans of toilet paper shards around them, and the muddy parts of the trail (presumably flooded the longest) positively reeked.  It may not have affected the wildlife much, but it certainly made the trail questionable for human use.

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