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I visited several park areas in this northwest Columbus suburb, focusing on the Scioto River Gorge and more isolated woodlots further west from there. Migrants were more concentrated in the Gorge parks (see note below), and tended towards temperate migrants.  Notables included:

Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 was calling at Trabue Preserve
Barred Owl - an adult was being harassed by jays & Robins at Twin Lakes Preserve
Chimney Swifts - several areas, but rarely more than 1
Flycatchers - still just E.Phoebes here, but they were in many areas
Swallows - Tree, Rough-wing, Barn, Cliff.  Most along River, especially around O'Shaughnessy Dam
Wrens - House Wrens and Carolina Wrens widespread and singing
Gnatcatchers - still one of the most common migrants, often in double figures
Kinglets - much less common than prior week; all Ruby-crowns
Brown Thrasher - singing bird at Twin Lakes
Warblers - Yellow-rumps abundant, especially along river.  Also had Parula, Yellow-throated (common), Pine, La.Waterthrush (in side ravine at north end of Amberleigh Park)
Sparrows - many singing Chipping & Field, as well as small flocks of White-throated

Several of the gorge forests had good flocks of migrants - mostly Yellow-rumps & White-throated Sparrows - while the isolated woodlots (Brandon Woods, Avery Park) had far fewer migrants.  To test whether it was the size of the forest (the Gorge is a large forest block) or the state of the trees (the riparian forests of the Gorge are more leafed out than the upland forests of the woodlots), I checked a few parks along Indian Run (Coventry Woods & Trabue Preserve) and found increased numbers of migrants along the creek.  So if you bird glaciated areas, you might want to focus your efforts in the next few days on riparian areas, as they appear to offer more bugs right now.

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