Hi all, sorry for the late post I was busy all evening. 
I stopped by Pickerington Ponds Metro Park (Franklin and Fairfield co.) this evening at 6pm-730pm and there was a nice batch of Shorebirds out there on Blue Wing Pond. Its an aptly named pond by the way, I saw a female Blue-winged Teal there with about 10 Ducklings! Very small and cute for this time of the year, so late and all. Anyways the high-light was a juvenile WILSON'S PHALAROPE, very pale and dashing around amongst the Pectoral Sandpipers and Lesser Yellowlegs etc. Also two Osprey were hanging around, as well as Green Heron, Great Egret, Great Blue Heron, Wood Ducks, Cedar Waxwings, Belted Kingfisher, etc. I thought I might've seen a Western Sandpiper, but it got up and flew around right away and I lost track of it, so hard to say definitively. It had nice Rufous scapulars though, whatever it was. Here is a list of the shorebirds there:



Wilson's Phalarope - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 8
Greater Yellowlegs - 2
Pectoral Sandpiper - 10
Least Sandpiper    -  10
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 8
Spotted Sandpiper  - 6+
Solitary Sandpiper - 8
Killdeer                - 40
Semipalmated Plover - 1
 
Good shorebirding!
-Ben Warner
Naturalist at Blacklick Woods Metro Park

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