I spent some time at several spots along the Scioto River in Columbus, starting with a transect around Scioto Audubon Park. The windy overcast weather seemed to ground a fair fallout of migrants, mostly temperate but with a few neotropicals. As is often the case in Spring, the sites south of downtown (Scioto Audubon Park) held many more migrants than the site north of it (Marble Cliff). Notables included: Cormorants - 4 in the bay at Scioto Audubon, another 2 at Marble Cliff Pied-billed Grebe - 1 in Watermark quarry Osprey - 1 sitting on the platform at Scioto Audubon (though no nest building was evident) Sapsuckers - 5+ along the bikepath at Scioto Audubon Flickers - 6+ along the same bikepath; another 2 at Marble Cliff Chimney Swift - 1 over the Grange Center at Scioto Audubon Swallows - 30+ Tree, 20+ Rough-winged, and 10+ Barn foraging over the river and wetlands at Scioto Audubon Brown Creeper - 1-2 along the bikepath at Scioto Audubon Winter Wren - 1 singing along the bikepath at Scioto Audubon Ruby-crowned Kinglets - 2-3 at Scioto Audubon, another 2 at Marble Cliff Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - good fallout, with 25+ along the bikepath at Scioto Audubon; another 2-3 at Marble Cliff Hermit Thrush - 1 along the bikepath at Scioto Audubon Brown Thrasher - 1 singing in the scrub northwest of the Grange Center Mockingbird - 2 hanging around the edges of the old impound lot at Scioto Audubon Yellow Warbler - 1 singing around wetlands at Scioto Audubon Yellow-throated Warblers - 1 singing along bikepath at Scioto Audubon, another along bikepath at Marble Cliff Yellow-rumped Warblers - decent fallout, with 25+ along bikepath at Scioto Audubon Prairie Warbler - 1 singing for most of morning in narrow tree line south of the Grange Center Palm Warbler - 1 around north wetland pond at Scioto Audubon Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 singing on swampy peninsula at Scioto Audubon E.Towhee - 6+ along bikepath at Scioto Audubon Chipping Sparrows - 4-5 around Grange Center Field Sparrows - 7-8 in fields of Scioto Audubon Savannah Sparrows - 3 in fields just north of Grange Center at Scioto Audubon White-throated Sparrows - 30+ scattered along bikepath at Scioto Audubon; another 20+ along bikepath at Marble Cliff Junco - 2 at Scioto Audubon, 1 at Marble Cliff ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]