Hi, all While working the Battelle Darby area this morning, we found a singing Bell's Vireo at the Wet Prairie parking area. It was in the group of mature deciduous trees along Darby Creek Rd. at the point of entering the Wet Prairie pull off. The Bell's (as expected, nominate belli) was detected due to its repeated, persistent singing, a fairly short harsh anxious phrase usually with a questioning end. But often in sliding down inflection. The Bell's occupied the mid to upper level (30 + ft) in the outer limbs, usually singing from within or hidden by a clump of leaves. Of the three large deciduous trees here it occupied the one at the edge of the pull off,. It was very inconspicuous, secretive and took us a while but we finally did locate it, and had good views as it foraged (between songs), sometime hover gleaning and often pumped its tail (occasionally combining a wing flick with the tail pumping), a behavior characteristic of nominate Bell's. The bird had disappeared and/or become silent after 30 min. And a follow up visit after visiting the park and overlook trails failed as well. This location is consistent with a migrant but with apparent suitable habitat nearby (in and around the Nature Center grounds) it may still be in the area. Foraging 30 + ft. above ground, near tree top canopy, seems unusually for Bell's, I have seen migrants even higher and know of other birders seeing them foraging above 60 ft. The few I've seen in OH (Franklin) have all been much lower, perhaps 5 - 10 ft., in dense vegetation in areas of shrub–stage successional habitats with a variety of small trees, typical of breeding habitat. -- Patty and David Tan Columbus [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]