Migrants continue to trickle into and through the Muskingum County uplands based on my observations yesterday and today. No huge waves, which isn't surprising. This isn't a trap of any sort, just a destination for our particular nesting individuals, or just another patch of average Ohio Appalachia for others. This morning's new arrival was our first singing ovenbird of the season, I was listening to a chorus of multiple white-throated sparrows from the upper (southern) portion of our deepest ravine, when the ovenbird chimed in somewhere from over on the east bank. There seems to be an ovenbird territory over around there every year, so this may be our returning nester or just one moving through. Nice to hear either way. The Louisiana waterthrush continues to sing near the Falls, definitely on territory. Blue-gray gnatcatchers have become a regular feature of our leafing forest canopy over the past couple of days, with multiple individuals raucously calling from the treetops in many locations. I heard a lot of brown creepers during our walk around the place this morning. Singing mockingbirds, two very vocal individuals have set up territories along the center line fence that divides our roadside pasture, one near the horse barn and another at the top of the hill or just over on the other side. It made for quite a recital of repertoire this morning. I'm sure they are within earshot of each other, spurring them on constantly. I wonder if they stop to eat. Brown thrashers are singing from a couple spots, in the Spring Hollow near the fallen hickory and from the northern edge of the Back Forty, below the campfire site. Bob Evans Geologist, etc. Hopewell Township, Muskingum County ______________________________________________________________________ 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]