Sunday afternoon Linda and I couldn't waste the nice weather so we headed to the preserve to walk around Hoover Meadows and then we checked the mudflats at Wiese Road. Hoover Meadows was a haven for sparrows. We located Chipping, Field, Savannah, Song, Lincoln’s, Swamp, White-throated and White-crowned. We also spotted our first Dark-eyed Junco’s of the fall. Yellow-rumped Warblers were everywhere we looked and we found one Palm Warbler. A few Rusty Blackbirds were intermixed with the Common Grackles and the immature Red-headed Woodpecker was still back at the dead trees at the third pond. At Wiese Road an adult Bald Eagle did a great fly-over. He turned into the wind and seemed to just hang there right over us. The old road had many Yellow-rumped Warblers and both Golden-crowned and Ruby-crowned Kinglets. Shorebirds along the west shore included Greater Yellowlegs, Killdeer and Semipalmted Sandpipers. There were many more shorebirds on a sand spit towards the boardwalk. With the spotting scope we identified but did not count, Killdeer, Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Western Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Dunlin and Long-billed Dowitcher. There were also a few Common Terns. Charlie Bombaci Hoover Nature Preserve Delorme 58 C (2) & (3) ______________________________________________________________________ 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