Made a brief morning trip over to this MetroPark SE of Columbus.  Many of the pools & wetlands are dry, but Teal Pond and Ellis Ponds still have water and a fringe of mudflats.  Pintail marsh has water, but had surprisingy few shorebirds.  Ellis Pond is best for shorebirds right now, but they are distant, so bring a scope.  Highlights included:

Herons - many Great Blues (35-40), along with lesser numbers of Great Egrets (7) and Green Herons (3).  A Black-crowned Night was reporteed at Teal Pond, but I couldn't relocate it
Osprey - still 1 bird hanging around Arrowhead Marsh, near the nesting platform
Plovers - lots of Kildeer, but no other plovers
Yellowlegs - plenty of Lessers ( parhaps 50 in all), with much fewer Greaters (2).
Solitary Spr - not so solitary, with 7 birds scattered over 3 sites
Peeps - many at Ellis POnd (60+), but most too far away to ID
Pectoral Sandpipers - 35+ at Ellis Pond, many fewer elsewhere
E.Kingbirds - several at different spots
Swallows - mostly Barn (30+), but a few Rough-winged mixed in with them
SEDGE WREN - 1 was calling along Bowen Rd, across from the Wood Duck observation area
Bobolinks - 6+ were lurking in the weedfields along the Meadowlark Trail, and a few more flew over.


Rob Thorn
[log in to unmask]
EarthLink Revolves Around You.

______________________________________________________________________

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]