Greetings, birders! We returned from the Biggest Week in American Birding on Monday, only to be treated to continued spectacular birding yesterday and (briefly) today, here in central Ohio. A good number of Bobolinks are showing really well at Glacier Ridge Metro Park. Migrant flycatchers seem to have arrived en masse as there were large number of Willow Flycatchers there at Glacier Ridge today, then at Kiwanis Riverside Park there were very vocal Alder and Yellow-bellied Flycatchers yesterday. Our short visit to Kiwanis was really excellent, in fact, as there was a Mourning Warbler (thanks Anna Wittmer) and a Canada Warbler hanging out in the same bush, and a Broad-winged Hawk flew over at one point. The OSU airport Upland Sandpipers have been co-operative (thanks James Muller), and Dickcissels have also been around there. Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park yesterday afternoon had really large numbers of Henslow's Sparrows, many of them right next to the trail, a very vocal Sedge Wren also right next to the trail (the Harrier Trail) and as usual good numbers of American Bitterns, Sora and Virginia Rails. If anyone wants more specific information about any of the above, just let me know. And I'm always eager to get out birding - if there are a few people who want to see any specific targets, I'd enjoy joining a morning session somewhere to join up and try. I'm also leading a Columbus Audubon Society outing to Battelle Darby next Wed morning - details will be on their website and social media. Ohio birding is spectacular at the moment.! Cheers, Chris --- Chris Lotz www.birdingecotours.com <http://www.birdingecotours.com/> - see the Swarovski binocular giveaway on our home page <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Birding-Ecotours/186476854747995> cid:image005.png@01CD7B9D.C8E4EB60 <http://twitter.com/#!/BirdingEcotours> cid:image006.png@01CD7B9D.C8E4EB60 <mailto:[log in to unmask]> cid:image007.png@01CD7B9D.C8E4EB60 US cell phone: +1-614-969-8925 (Eastern Time) Cell phone for text messages when outside of North America (I travel a lot!): +27 72 635 1501 Dublin, Ohio, USA See http://birdingecotours.com/contact/ for office contacts in South Africa, the UK and Peru --- --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ______________________________________________________________________ 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]