The mudflats around the north end of Hoover Reservoir are extensive and
holding shorebirds. Easiest viewing is found at the boardwalk off Front
Street, Galena, Ohio. If you bring time and energy, find the best
shorebirding of Old Sunbury Road--a trail, today, from the yacht club gate
parking. This approach offers access to Pelican Island flats, the best
viewing area. See the OOS website site descriptions for access:
http://www.ohiobirds.org/birdingsites/showsite.php?Site_ID=26

Pelican Island flats highlights:
Buff-breasted Sandpiper, 13 (three groups), will take some walking and
searching
Baird's Sandpiper, 4+ (Sean Williams and Ben Warner told me they saw more
birds earlier in the day)
Short-billed Dowitcher
Spotted Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Semi-palmated Plover
Semi-palmated Sandpiper
Black-bellied Plover, 1
Caspian Terns
Etc.

Boardwalk highlights:
Semi-palmated Sandpipers, dozens
Least Sandpipers, few
Baird's Sandpipers, four (view the green flats seen by viewing through the
underside of the bridge from the entry to the boardwalk if you don't find
them elsewhere).
Stilt Sandpipers, 14 or more
Short-billed Dowitcher
Pectoral Sandpiper
Etc.

Tom Bain
The Central Ohio Clayey Till Plain
Delaware County, Ohio

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