Jay Stenger, Joe Bens and I visited Hogback Rd (Alum Creek) this morning.  There is still large mudflats present, providing great shorebird habitat. The best birds were 3 SANDERLINGS.

  Some other birds seen:

  14     Great Egrets
  1       Osprey
  1       Red-Shouldered Hawk
  ~185 Killdeer
  7       Greater Yellowlegs
  38     Lesser Yellowlegs
  2       Solitary Sandpiper
  5       Spotted Sandpiper
  3       SANDERLING
  25     Pectoral Sandpiper
  6       Semipalmated Sandpiper
  9       Least Sandpiper
  3       Stilt Sandpiper
  1       Short-billed Dowitcher
  1       Red-breasted Nuthatch

  On 8/31 Jed Burtt and I saw 1 Baird's Sandpiper and 4 Semipalmated Plovers from Hogback Rd.

  Also, Red-headed Woodpeckers are nearly guaranteed at the swamp north of Leonardsburg Rd. in unit B of Delaware Wildlife Area.

  Hogback Rd is located in Delaware County, Delorme p. 58 B-2.

  Jack Stenger,
  Ohio Wesleyan University


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