I took an hour yesterday and today to visit two good woodlot migrant traps, Gahanna Woods yesterday and Jefferson Township Park Woods today, and found them bustling with migrants. Both are mature mixed woods with lush understory and vernal pools. Both had among the first flycatchers, tanagers, buntings, and grosbeaks of the season for me, as well as a good diversity of warblers. Highlights included: Flycatchers - Great Cresteds in GW yesterday, E.Wood Pewees and Acadians in JTPW today Vireos - Blue-headed, Yellow-throated, and 2-4 Red-eyed were at each woods, and JTPW also had a singing Warbling Kinglets,Gnatcatchers - 1-2 Ruby-crowns at each woods, along with 5-8 Gnatcatchers Thrushes - only Wood Thrushes, but 3-4 at each woods Mimids - plenty of Gray Catbirds at each woods, but GW also had a singing Brown Thrasher Warblers - GW had 15: Yellow, Nashville (5), Tennessee (2), Magnolia (2), Chesnut-sided (3), Black-thr.Blue, Black-thr.Green (5), Blackburnian (6), Yellow-rumped (15), Black&White (2), AmRestart, Ovenbird(2), N.Waterthrush, Hooded (2), Com.Yellowthroat (3) JTPW had 13: Yellow, Nashville (4), Tennessee, Golden-winged, Magnolia, Chesnut-sided (5), Black-thr.Green (3), Blackburnian (2), Yellow-rumped (10), Palm, Black&White, AmRedstart, Ovenbird Buntings,Grosbeaks - both had Rose-br.grosbeaks, but JTPW had 4. Only JTPW had Indigo Buntings (2-3) Tanagers - both had 1-2 Scarlets. Neither had Summer tanagers. Sparrows - both had the expected Chipping-Field-Song, but they also still ahd small flocks of White-throateds Orioles - both had Baltimore Orioles, but not Orchards ______________________________________________________________________ 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]