Greetings!

As the water evaporates, more mud is being exposed.  While the Western was
not spotted today, Cam Lee Spotted a Shorebird that was not like the
others...sounds like Sesame Street. :-D We all got our scopes on it and
ID'ed it as an Upland Sandpiper....hasn't been seen or heard in Marion
County for a couple of years.and hasn't been a regular for well over a
decade.
Hopefully it was a local, and not one migrating through.  It would be nice
to regularly see and hear them again in Marion County.

Everything else was pretty typical...we even had a Sanderling struggling to
navigate the mudflats...
eBird list is below.  Follow the link to the online list for a picture of
the upland.

Looks to be a promising shorebird migration.

Happy Birding and God Bless!

Steve J.
Big Island Wildlife Area--North of Larue-Prospect Rd., Marion, Ohio, US
Aug 13, 2016 8:30 AM - 12:02 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.402 kilometer(s)
Comments:     <br>Submitted from eBird Android 1.3-beta2
34 species

Canada Goose  2
Trumpeter Swan  2
Mallard  12
Double-crested Cormorant  4
Great Blue Heron  12
Turkey Vulture  3
Bald Eagle  6
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Black-bellied Plover  1
Semipalmated Plover  30
Killdeer  50
Upland Sandpiper  1
Stilt Sandpiper  3
Sanderling  1
Least Sandpiper  50
Pectoral Sandpiper  30
Semipalmated Sandpiper  30
Short-billed Dowitcher  2
Wilson's Snipe  3
Wilson's Phalarope  1
Solitary Sandpiper  3
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  12
Caspian Tern  8
Mourning Dove  2
Eastern Kingbird  1
Purple Martin  2
Tree Swallow  10
Barn Swallow  10
European Starling  50
Song Sparrow  1
Red-winged Blackbird  8
American Goldfinch  12
House Sparrow  2

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/
checklist/S31077207

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