There was a male Northern Bobwhite perched and calling in the thin treerow 
at the northwestern corner of Washington Township's Homestead Park (off 
Cosgray Road) this morning.  He cooperated for a couple photos and 
continued calling while I failed at my third effort in as many days to 
locate the previously posted Bell's Vireo along the Heritage Metropark 
Multi-Use Path. (Perhaps I had the wrong stretch of the path.)

Unrelated to the Bobwhite, there is significant shorebird habitat 
developing at Killdeer Plains WMA (Wyandot County portions).  The Roe 
Wetland Complex (east side of TH-108, south of CH-71) is the largest 
expanse of mudflats, but Pond #6 along Ch-115 also held quite a few 
shorebirds.  No really unusual species (Least Sandpipers, both Yellowlegs, 
and Short-billed Dowitchers in addition to the presumably resident 
Killdeer and Spotted Sandpipers), but I suspect that if conditions 
supporting the habitat persist, rarities may well show up as migration 
progresses.  I only heard three Dickcissels at KPWMA late this morning, as 
compared to 10-15 singers I enjoyed last Friday evening. 

-DSJ

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