Two Purple Sandpipers, reported on Saturday, 12/16/06, were still present yesterday afternoon between 1:00 and 2:00 pm beyond the lighthouse accessible from Headlands Beach State Park. The walk out the jetty was fine with almost all of the rocks/boulders dry with no ice. Some of the rocks on the way around the lighthouse were wet. The two Purple Sandpipers were almost to the end of the jetty/breakwater, which beyond the lighthouse is round steel encased bulwarks filled with massive rocks and concrete. They were feeding and flying around in the second or third bulwark from the very end. There were two men fishing out near the end, but the birds were relatively unafraid, flying around them. I got at least two good photographs in the poor light (cloudy and misty!) by standing and sitting quietly. They flew in and came almost underfoot! That's the closest view I have ever had of Purple Sandpipers, which I have seen almost yearly on the east coast. I scanned the breakwall opposite the light house. I did not see more than two Purple Sandpipers (5 were reported there yesterday, Sunday, 12/17/06). I will post the photos either on the new Ohio Birds website for photos or on RareBird.org later today. Jay Jay G. Lehman Cincinnati, OH [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]