Offering proof that landbirds are now out of the migration starting-gates, this beauty was flycatching from a tall snag along Big Walnut Creek yesterday morning. I probably would've bicycled past without a second glance, if not for the 'pip-pip-pip' call note. Not a lot of other potential migrants except for more Wood Pewees; perhaps this genus has the itch to leave early. This is the 2nd time in the past 5 years where an Olive-sided was the first unequivocal landbird fall migrant for me around Columbus (the others were kingbirds or Yellow Warblers), so either they head south very early or we have a hidden population breeding somewhere in north-central Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]