With a visiting relative, we stayed close to home and visited parks along Alum Creek (Innis Park) and Big Walnut Creek (Woodside Green), with the predictable results of lot of migrants in this first big push of neotropicals. In an hour at Innis and an hour and a half at Woodside Green we had -Flycatchers; Great Cresteds in number (3-4 per park), but also a few E.Phoebes -Vireos - Red-eyed in both parks, with Innis adding a Yellow-throated, and WG a Blue-headed -Gnatcatchers,Kinglets - these 'warbler surrogates' continued in good numbers at both parks -Sedge Wren - reported by Bob McNulty yesterday, it continues at Woodside Green, where we found it just north of the footbridge over Big Walnut Creek -Thrushes - plenty of Swainson's at both parks, along with single Veeries. WG also had Gray-cheek and Wood Thrushes -Mimids - loads of Gray Catbirds, but Innis also had a Brown Thrasher -Waxwings - pairs of Cedar Waxings at many locations Warblers - 10 species at Innis, 14 at WG, including Parulas, Nashville, Tennessees (common), Black&Whites, Black-thr.Greens (WG), Golden-winged (WG), Blackburnian (Innis), Chestnut-sided (abundant), Yellow-rumped (abundant), Yellow-throated (both), Palms (both), Ovenbird (Innis), La.Waterthrush (WG), Hooded (both), AmerRedstarts (both), ComYellowthroats (both) -grosbeaks,Buntings - small #s of Rose-br.grosbeaks at both parks, as well as 1-2 Indigo Buntings -sparrows - flocks of White-throated Sparrows, but little else beyond the expected Chipping & Song Sparrows and a few E.Towhees. -Orioles - lots of Baltimores (5-6), as well as single Orchards, at each park. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]