Outline of birds seen over week in Franklin Co. BWWR (Blendon Woods Waterfowl Refuge trails) OURP (Our Property, near Worthington in NE Columbus) wooded ravine, mature hardwoods and edge/margin TMBD (Teal Marsh trail, Kulhwein Rd., headquarters Battelle Darby MP) Turkey (BWWR, 20+) House Wren (daily, av. 9 - 13; Max. 23 4/27) RS Towhee (daily, av. 10 +: Max 28 4/25, 26 5/1) Myrtle Warbler (daily, 13 - 20; Max 65 4/29) White-throated Sparrow (daily, 20+; max 56 4/29) 4/25 0700--1000 Wood Thrush (OURP) Red-headed Woodpecker (1 ad.) Hairy Woodpecker 3 Blue-headed Vireo 3 Nashville Warbler 2 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Black-throated Green Warbler Black and White Warbler Summer Tanager (singing m. parkinglot) Rose-breasted Grosbeak 4/26 630 PM OURP over a dozen scolding jays attracked us to a beautifl LONG-EARED OWL about 20 ft up in a poplar at edge of ravine. It perched a few feet away from the trunk before finally flying away on straight stiff flight over the thickly wooded ravine. It eyed us before flying (no time to get my camera) 4/27 0600 - 1000 TMBD, mostly Teal marsh. American Bittern 6 Least Bittern 1 Sora 21 Virginia Rail 0 Lesser Yellowlegs 26 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Barn Swallow 212 Bank 2 Cliff Swallow 1 Wood Thrush 2 (BDMP) Marsh Wren 18 Yellowthroat 11 Savannah Sparrow 12 Swamp Sparrow 9 4/28 0900 - 1100 OURP Great Egret 1 Wood Thrush 9 Blue-headed Vireo 6 Nashville Warbler 2 Orange crowned Warbler Worm eating Warbler Palm (western) Warbler 3 4/29 0700 - noon with a good notable flight 0930 - 1000 in the second grown and hardwoods half way up the ravine--many trees still mostly bare. Hawks flying over 3 - 4 pm. Bald Eagle 1 (ad.) Cooper's Hawk 4 Red-shouldered Hawk (nesting; carring 3+ ft long snake, probably Garter). Broad-winged Hawk 7 GC Flycatcher 3 Gray Catbird (hereafter daily, 10+) Wood Thrush 14 Veery 4 Swainson's Thrsh 2 Blue-headed Vireo 7 Yellow-throated Vireo 5 PHILADELPHIA VIREO 1 working mostly bare outer limbs from 10 - 20 ft. Well seen for over 10 minutes, moving with a handful of Myrtles. Small vireo, small bill, with noticeable up and down white eyeling, clearest before eye; pinched dark line through lores. Underparts creamy white with yellow throat, breast and sides of breast. Pale greenish wingpanel. Stayed mostly to lower elevations and outer limbs. Ruled out Warbling, Bell's (My first Apr Philadelphia; previous arrival in Frank. 5.7) RC Kinglet 6 Blue-winged Warbler 5 Golden-winged Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler 2 Nashville Warbler Cape May Warbler 3 Black-throated Green Warbler Chestnut sided Wabler Black and White Warbler Palm Western Warbler 6 Kentucky Warbler 3 Scarlet Tanager 2 4/30 OURP 0700-1000 Hairy Woodpecker 3 Red eyed Vireo Chestnut sided Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Magnolia Warbler Prothonotary Warbler 2 5/1 OURP off and on all day from 0800 Osprey 1 Cooper's Hawk 6 Broad winged Hawk 11 Hairy Woodpecker Great C Fly 6 Wood Thrush 8 Tennessee Warbler 2 Nashville Warbler 6 Chestnut sided Warbler 3 Cape May 5 Magnolia Warbler BTBlue Warbler Ovenbird 2 Kentucky Warbler Prothonotary 3 Wilson's Warbler Scarlet Tanager 8 Fox Sparrow 1 5/2 BWWR 0800 - 1100 Acadian Flycatcher 2 Red-eyed Vireo 2 NRW Swallow 33 Rc Kinglet 8 Blue-winged Warbler 2 Tennessee Warbler 3 Orange crowned Warbler 2 Nashville 7 Parula 1 Magnolia 8 Chestnut sided Warbler 4 Yellow 1 BTGreen 3 Yellow throated Warbler Palm (W) Warbler 3 Black and white 4 Ovenbird Worm eating Warbler 2 Kentucky Warbler 3 Hooded Baltimore Oriole 4 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 (at the blind) The often dark damp, rainy with some sun has certainly helped with the overall goodness off migration so far. Often warbler etc flights are best around mid morning and sometimes again in mid afternoon. Clear skies in the afternoon are often good for overhead migrants i.e. raptors Good birding! -- 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]