Offering proof that landbirds are now out of the migration starting-gates, this beauty was flycatching from a tall snag along Big Walnut Creek yesterday morning.  I probably would've bicycled past without a second glance, if not for the 'pip-pip-pip' call note.  Not a lot of other potential migrants except for more Wood Pewees; perhaps this genus has the itch to leave early.  This is the 2nd time in the past 5 years where an Olive-sided was the first unequivocal landbird fall migrant for me around Columbus (the others were kingbirds or Yellow Warblers), so either they head south very early or we have a hidden population breeding somewhere in north-central Ohio.

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