Was in Port Clinton today (Monday Nov. 6) so I checked out a few spots in the area, including East Harbor State Park. The woods south of the easternmost parking lot look as if they ought to hold lingering late migrants -- looks like a warm microclimate there, next to the lake, with a lot of green leaves still on the trees. There were many passerines present but the only notable thing was one Orange-crowned Warbler. This would be a notably late date compared to what's listed as normal in Peterjohn's The Birds of Ohio ("the last fall migrants normally depart by October 20-25 with a few stragglers into November"). However, Larry Rosche's book on birds of the Cleveland region shows the species as uncommon through the end of October, rare through November, and then occasional in December. The latter sounds more like what I'd expect, since Orange-crowns are relatively hardy warblers that migrate late in fall and winter farther north than most. The scarcity of records after October probably reflects the fact that this is a low-density migrant in the first place, hence present in only very small numbers after the "peak" of the fall flight. In the same general area I had at least half a dozen Fox Sparrows and at least 30 Rusty Blackbirds. Checking several points along the lake shore, I saw a lot of the expected waterbirds (including good numbers of Red-breasted Mergansers and Horned Grebes) but nothing unusual -- no jaegers, no scoters. Don't know why those birds seem to be concentrated farther to the east along the lake. Kenn Kaufman Rocky Ridge, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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 Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]