I spent an hour and a half checking these 2 parks near downtown Columbus this morning and found a good selection of very early migrants. The river was very high, so waterfowl & gulls were scant, but raptors & landbirds made up for it. Notables included Osprey - 1 was fussing around the nest in the old impound lot near the Grange Center BaldEagle - an adult was along the river in Berliner, near the suspected nest there E.Phoebe - 1 was calling near the boat ramp at Scioto TreeSwallows - 4-5 were flying around the bay above the Greenlawn Ave dam BrownCreepers - there were still 2 of them in the riparian woods along the Berliner bikepath E.Towhee - at least 2 were calling along the bikepath at Scioto FoxSparrows - 2 were along the bikepath at South Scioto, while another 2 were along the Berliner bikepath blackbirds - loads of grackles & Red-winged blackbirds, along with a few cowbirds ______________________________________________________________________ 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]