Troy Shively just called to report ~400 American golden-plovers, along with ~200 Bonaparte's gulls and a few Lapland longspurs and American pipits, at or near a shallow sky-pond on Valley Rd about 3/4 mi south of US 33; this is in the very lower rightmost corner of p 45 in the De Lorme atlas. A strong cold front is approaching from the west, and these birds, who sometimes give short shrift to Ohio in their northerly passage in the spring, are probably displaced by winds. Other interesting birds might be as well. This is a good opportunity to issue my yearly alert to look for Smith's longspurs in Ohio; the next ten days are prime-time, and open agricultural fields, especially if infested with foxtail, are a great place to look for them. Western Ohio should be pretty interesting for the next few hours, anyway, and perhaps beyond as temps drop sharply. Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. 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]