The Columbus Audubon trip to Alum & Hoover reservoirs found a Laughing Gull consorting with Ring-billed Gulls on a small mudflat off the New Galena disc golf course (just north of the boat launch).  The bird was likely pushed off the beach, where an event had driven off most of the gulls, so it would probably be best re-found at that site.

We could not, however, relocate the Surf Scoters seen the prior day at the south end of Hoover Reservoir.  A large crew regatta there today seems to have driven them off the reservoir.

We were expecting more migrants, but found surprisingly few at both Alum Lake and at Hoover.  The nice weather appears to have allowed many of them to move further south.  We did have some notables, including
-Herons - lots of Great Blues & Great Egrets still around the Galena Boardwalk area at Hoover.
-shorebirds - no big #s, but there were Lesser Yellowlegs, Pectoral Sandpipers, and Kildeer at the Galena Boardwalk
-sapsucker - 1 bird flying around the New Galena peninsula at Alum Creek Lake
-Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 late bird eating caterpillars at Oxbow Island
-Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 late bird early in the morning at Heritage park in Westerville
-Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 late bird was along the trail at New Galena
-Warblers - a very light day, but it did include Parula (Oxbow Isl.), Tennessee (same), Magnolia, Cape May, Black-thr.Green, Black-thr.Blue (New Galena), and Yellow-rumped (many locations)
-Buntings,Grosbeaks - an Indigo was at Oxbow Island, while a female Rose-br.Grosbeak was at New Galena
-Sparrows - little other than White-throated, but we passed visiting Hoover Meadows

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