Mound Road has fairly extensive mud banks now and should be in optimal
shorebird condition for the next week or 10 days.  Here is my list for this
morning:
Killdeer                           35
Lesser Yellowlegs             1
Solitary Sandpiper           13
Semipalmated Sandpiper   3
Least Sandpiper              12
Pectoral Sandpiper            1

In addition, there was a a Pileated Woodpecker, a Great Egret, two Great
Blue Herons, a pair of Wood Duck, a pair of Mallard, and a flock of about 30
Northern Rough-winged Swallows.

Larry Gara arrived as I was departing.  He had checked the beach and found
nothing there.  I went around to the pond at the "restored wetland" and
found a Killdeer and a Sora feeding along the margin.  The Sora was
particularly interesting to me as I tried a couple of years ago to find Sora
here in the spring with no success.  There is a lot of likely-looking
habitat here and it may bear another try in the spring.

You can find an interactive map showing all the usual birding spots at
Caesar Creek by clicking
here<http://local.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=104411027825639848188.000001121091b9b478454&z=13>
.

Cheers,

Bob

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Robert D Powell
Wilmington, OH, USA
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