A quick hike around Sharon Woods this hot afternoon found migration in a lull, but not entirely static. I walked the Spring Creek Trail and Thomas Trail - all in the blessed shade - , and still ran into some flocks of birds. Shrock Lake was largely empty except for geese on the shore and mallards, plus 1 Green Heron. Notables included: Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 was along the connector trail along the edge of the woods Flycatchers - fair #s, with 6+ Pewees, 1 Willow, 2 Great Crested, and 1 E.Kingbird Vireos - 6 Red-eyed, including 2 singing along Spring Creek Trail. Swallows - hardly any except for a few Barn Swallows Wrens,Gantactchers - 4-5 House Wrens, along with 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers Thrushes - nothing but Robins Mimids - nothing but a few Catbirds Warblers - very few - 2 Black&Whites and 1 Common Yellowthroat Sparrows - the first flocks of postbreeding Chipping Sparrows, with 8 and 12 at different locations Oriole - 1 female Baltimore along the Spring Creek Trail ______________________________________________________________________ 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]