In a few spare moments, I stopped by both the Alum Creek Lake beach area and Visitor's Center, then Heritage park downstream in Westerville. No big fallout today, but more migrants are slipping in. Highlights included: Shorebirds - the Alum Creek Lake Beach had only 6-8 Kildeer and 1 Spotted Sandpiper Gulls - surprisingly, not a single gull was around the lower end of Alum Creek Lake Swallows - a flock of 20-25 Cliffs were swirling around the Alum Creek Lake dam, while a male Purple Martin was warbling over a martin house nearby Vireos - only Warbling, but 1-2 of them were at both parks Winter Wren - a late bird was in the forest north of the Visitor's Center at Alum Creek lake Kinglets - only a few Ruby-crowns at each location Mimids - Catbirds were singing at each park, but only AlumCreek Lake had a singing Brown Thrasher Warblers - Yellow-rumps were the most common at both parks, but each only had 3-5. Heritage had a singing Pine Warbler and Yellow-throated, while ACL had 2 singing Yellow Warblers just east of the Visitor's Center Sparrows - still small flocks of White-throats on the move at both spots, and ACL had small groups of Field and Chipping, but little else was noted Meadowlarks - the wide grassy berm of the ACL dam had 2 singing meadowlarks ______________________________________________________________________ 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]