Arrived at about 4:00 pm.  I walked north from LaRue-Prospect Road at first
on the wrong dike for shorebirds on the west dike of the first
impoundment.  At halfway north near a bright green clump of bushes and a
metal wood duck box, I found three islands of shorebird habitat on the west
side of the dike in the second impoundment.  Dunlin 1, Lesser Yellowlegs, 4
White-rumped Sandpipers, 1 Baird's Sandpiper and 6 Pectoral Sandpipers.
Just beyond the green clump and wood duck box, I found a Nelson's Sparrow,
first heard an interesting sharp chip note and got the NESP to pop up an
sit on the grass on islands in the first impoundment to the east of the
dike by making loud kissing noises as if kissing the back of my hand.  My
photos indicate the NESP was an adult with white streaks on the back,
unmarked gray nape and gray crown stripe bordered on each side of central
crown stripe.

At 5:30 to 6:00,  I got exact instructions from Dan Sanders by cell phone
to the shorebird habitat in the second impoundment along the west dike and
met Leslie Sours in the parking lot on the south side of the road.  Leslie
and I scoured the shorebirds and had large numbers of White-rumps (one
group of 10) as well as 1 Common Snipe, 1 Long-billed Dowitcher (1 ID'd) by
call), quite a few Pectoral Sandpipers and Lesser Yellowlegs.  Just as the
light was failing us, I found an interesting bird that could have been the
Western Sandpiper but the light was too dim to confirm it.

I lost the front part of the cover for my Swavroski telescope.  It is
canvas covered, circular in the middle with a flap on each side with a
female snap on each flap.  If found please contact me at this email
address. Thanks.
Jay

Jay G Lehman Cincinnati, OH
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