Hello everyone, hope birding has been productive where ever you are in OH, sounds good overall. I haven't posted in a while even though I've been daily in and around Big Darby Creek and the wetland complex. Seemed like it would be good for passerines so I spent the morning BDMP and the Darby Greenways wetlands. Flycatchers have arrived and lots of warblers are still about, many using the high canopy. Highlights 5/24 Two Olive-sided Flycatchers (1 in top of tall oak in mixed pine/deciduous woodland boarder overlooking sports field at MP entrance; 1 Loop Trail DG wetlands); Willow and Alder Flycatcher ) the former DG wetlands, latter singing fee--bee-a, often just fee-bee audible, when both same pitch due to accent on second syllable, unlike Willow; northside Kuhlwein Rd. on tops of broad leaf shrubbery away from cattails, about 2/10 mi. Kuhlwein Rd.). Best birds were two well seen Nelson's Sparrows in a matted grassy/bush area in the same spot I found the colony of Sedge Wrens DG wetlands last year. Face pattern with broad Baltimore Oriole orange triangle, with black cap and broad gray collar. Warblers Tennessee 3 Yellow 21 Chestnut sided 4 Magnolia 4 Cape May 2 Blackburnian 2 Bay-breasted 1 Blackpoll 5 Redstart 9 Worm-eating 2 Kentucky 2 Mourning 3 Yellowthroat Wilson's 1 Canada 6 Other notables hybrid Mall X AMBD (apparent male with glossy green crown, broadly covering head from eye to eye and upper neck; a very dark bird dark gray brown, solid on mantle, flank pattern with little complexity typical of AMBD featering mostly solid gray, strong contrast at neck to face, mostly white tail) NPintail (three females flying around pond at bleachers Loop Path DG wetlands - 1st I've seen in area since species departure 4/8-10) Redhead (3 males, large N pond T/H wetlands) Least Bittern Northern Harrier 1 f. Broad winged Hawk 9 (all late spring migrants, imm) Black-billed Cuckoo 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 Pileated Woodpecker 12 Sedge Wren 1 (in same area as Nelson's) Grey-cheeked Thrush 1 Swainson's Thrush 5 Lincoln's Sparrow 9 (a late high count, 2 singing) Highlights for 5/25--Kuhwein Rd. and wetlands Shorebirds still strong, Semipalmated Sandpiper peaking, Least past peak. Black-bellied Plover 3 (2 ad. , 1 probable first year, in odd plumage/molt partial black belly yellowish breast pure white under tail coverts; possibly due to illness/retardation.) Semipalmated plover 145 Kildeer 32 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Spotted Sandpiper 12 Ruddy Turnstone 4 Semipalmated Sandpiper 150 Least Sandpiper 11 White-rumped Sandpiper 31 Pectoral Sandpiper 1 (Very late; my last one here was May 7) Dunlin 29 American Bittern 2 Great Blue Heron 7 Cape May Warbler 2 Yellow Warbler 19 Grasshopper Sparrow 18 Henslow Sparrow 5 White Crowned Sparrow 3 Bobolink 5 Scarlet Tanager 2 Hope everyone is having a good week end. GOOD BIRDING -- David Tan Columbus [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]