My dad and I birded at Hiestand Woods which is next to the reservoirs in Van Wert County and right across from the Willow Bend Golf course. It was surprising good for such a small area. We saw the following in about 2 hours: Yellow Rumps-literally dozens Blue Gray Gnatcatchers-also literally dozens Brown Creepers-2 Blue Headed Vireo Worm Eating Warbler House Wrens-2 Carolina Wrens-2 Mockingbird Palm Warbler Phoebes-nest building Yellow Warbler-1 Wood Thrushes-2 Louisiana Waterthrush-1 Ruby Crowned Kinglets-several Red-Bellied-in nesting hole-several Flickers-2 Downys-several Coopers Hawk Red Tail Goldfinches-numerous Cowbirds-numerous I would also like to comment that I have never seen or heard so many Chipping Sparrows and Grackles in Van Wert County as there are this year. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Royse" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 5:58 PM Subject: [Ohio-birds] Columbus migrants - April 30 > The south winds last night brought in some new migrants here along the > Scioto River in Columbus. I picked up a few new species for the year, but > nothing that hasn't already been widely reported elsewhere. At this point > it seems to be the trees and not the weather that is keeping the migration > slower than usual. > > Birds along my local stretch of the Scioto during a 30 min. walk late this > morning produced the following sightings : > > 1 Great Crested Flycatcher > 1 White-eyed Vireo > 3 Blue-headed Vireos > 1 Yellow-throated Vireo > 2 Warbling Vireos > 2 Red-eyed Vireos > 2 House Wrens > 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglets > 7 pairs of Blue-gray Gnatcatchers > 2 Swainson's Thrushes > 1 Wood Thrush > 3 Gray Catbirds > 1 Tennessee Warbler > 7 Nashville Warblers > 3 Yellow Warblers > 48 Yellow-rumped Warblers > 1 Black-throated Green Warbler > 1 Blackburnian Warbler > 4 Yellow-throated Warblers > 1 Pine Warbler (female) > 2 Palm Warblers > 1 Black-and-white Warbler > 1 Ovenbird > 2 Baltimore Orioles > > Yellow-rumps are still abundant here, but the numbers of Ruby-cr Kinglets > and Palm Warblers have thinned a bit since the last infusion of new birds. > I'm still hoping for a territorial Prothonotary to show up here before I > break down and head to Hoover or Spring Valley for that tick on my > yearlist. > > This evening a walk on the bike path on the other side of the river S of > 5th Ave. wasn't very productive. Besides the resident Warbling Vireos, B-g > Gnatcatchers and Yellow-thr Warblers, the only passerines of note were ~12 > Yellow-rumped, 2 Nashville, 1 Yellow, and 3 Palm Warblers. An Osprey was a > flyover. Besides getting some excersise, the walk to the bridges at the > Grandview exits of I-670 was still worthwhile with the arrival of the > Cliff Swallows in numbers. At least 50 pairs are now occupying and > retouching last year's nests. I didn't see any new nest building from from > scratch by any of them. > > Bob Royse, Columbus > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at > www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. > > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]