I cannot too enthusiastically recommend the shorebird site from the
Ontario Field Ornithologists at
http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/articles.southboundshorebirds. They
accurately recommend the four best shorebird field guides. The site's
overall excellence is enhanced by their yearly fall trips, with regular
reports, to sites on James Bay to locate and count shorebirds on their
migration our way.
        As we all know by now, most shorebirds abandon their young at the nest
site and head south; the young follow them soon thereafter. This
produces predictable pulses of old and young birds--often in different
plumages--through Ohio. Under normal conditions these departures are
fairly predictable, but on-the-ground reports from the James Bay
stopovers watch these movements, as well as mentioning other interesting
species (mammals and butterflies are included). Check out regular
reports on the Ontario list via the ABA; yesterday's is at
http://birding.aba.org/message.php?mesid=1159566&MLID=ON&MLNM=Ontario  .
  I invite you to check it out.
Bill Whan

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