I started by looking for migrants at some of the 'traps' along the NW shore of Hoover Reservoir (Oxbow Island, Wiese Rd, Area I), but actually had better luck stopping at a few isolated parks in Westerville on the way home. Beautiful morning, but migrants were not easy to come by; the isolation of the 2 Westerville sites (Hoff Woods & Boyer Preserve) may have helped to 'concentrate' their few migrants so that I could easily find the birds. Notable birds for the morning included: Raptors - a Red-shouldered calling and foraging at Boyer Preserve was unusual for this small site Flycatchers - some E.Wood Pewees & Great Crested around the Hoover accesses, along with 2-4 E.Kingbirds at each spot Swallows - colony of Cliff Swallows at Area I bridge now numbers 75+, one of the bigger colonies around the Reservoir Vireos - 4 Warbling at Oxbow, and another 2-3 at Wiese Rd. Red-eyed at both, along with 8-10 at Char-Mar Preserve Thrushes - single Swainson's were still lurking at Wiese and Char-Mar Mimids - lots of Catbirds at Oxbow, and a Mockingbird was on the entrance road there Cedar Waxwings - small flocks of 6-10 at Oxbow & Wiese; smaller groups at Hoff Woods & Boyer Warblers - 2-3 Prothonotaries were very obvious at Oxbow as Charlie Bombaci mentioned. More obvious migrants included a Cape May at Char-Mar, singing Blackpoll at Area I, 2 Black-thr.Greens at Hoff Woods, Redstarts at Boyer Preserve and Juniper Ave, Wilson's at Hoff Woods & Boyer Preserve, and an Ovenbird at Hoff Woods Buntings,Grosbeaks - singing Indigo Buntings at every stop; singing Rose-br.Grosbeaks at Wiese Rd and Char-Mar Sparrows - nothing except the expected Chipping, Field, and Songs Orioles - 5-6 Baltimores were at Oxbow ISland, and another 3 were along the Wiese Rd bikepath ______________________________________________________________________ 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]