To add to the theme of temperate migrant fallout, I had a surprising number of migrants in a tiny forest patch in this southern Columbus suburb. Obetz is an area that was intensively farmed before being converted to housing and light industry, so there are very few wooded areas of any size here. The patch is in Memorial Park and is perhaps a half acre of scraggly woods along a railroad line. It was the only patch of trees in the vicinity, so I had targeted it as a possible fallout patch last year while doing OBBA2 surveys. In a brief 20-minute stop this afternoon, I had a few resident chickadees, wrens, and woodpeckers plus 2 Yellow-bellied sapsuckers 2 flickers 1 phoebe 1 Winter wren 2 Golden-cr.kinglets 1 Brown Thrasher 30+ Am.Robins 1 Yellow-rumpd warbler 3 E.Towhee 2 Field Sparrows 5 Chipping sparrows 15+ White-thr.sparrows 5 Common grackles 6-8 cowbirds We're probably near the peak of temperate migrants now, with numbers of sapsuckers, kinglets, and sparrows at almost any patch of woods. Not only are they a good spectacle in their own right, but you can search among them for early neotropicals that may have overwintered in the southern U.S./northern Mexico. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]