Stopped by hoover at about 4 pm on the way home today. I just hit the boardwalk pretty much. Spent an hour lost in bird-land. Here's the list of estimates and counts; Pectoral Sandpiper - 10 Greater Yellowlegs - 2 Lesser Yellowlegs - 10 Dunlin - 10 Stilt sandpiper - 5 LB Dowitcher - 4 Semipalm. Sandpiper - 4 Least Sandpiper - 3 Semipalm Plover - 3 Killdeer - 8 GBH Mallards G.W. Teal - 2 Ruddy Duck - 15 a new sight for me this fall at hoover. Ringbilled Gulls Bonaparte's Gull - 2 D.c. Cormorants - 20 Saw some of the usual birds in the parkinglot and elsewheres. Downy Woodpeckers were conspicuous with about 4 flying about low. Good birding , - Ben Warner ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS