Hi Folks - On a last minute evening 'lust' for this morning's Piping Plovers, I hit Headlands Beach State Park this evening from 6 pm till 7:20 pm...hoping on the minute chance that one of the buggers had stuck around/returned to the beach to roost in the evening. I was met with intermittent downpours, fantastic lightning shows, a phenomenal wall cloud, an incredible black 'front' of looming storms on the horizon, and ultimately, no Piping Plover. I ran (yes, ran) the extent of the beach to the lighthouse and back to the parking lot before incoming doom hit Headlands and Fairport Harbor with quite some force. During a break in the storm I was treated to a grand barrage of White-throated Sparrows, with some warblers, kinglets, and others in the mix. Here's the run-down on my very quick run-down: Highlights: HBSP: Vesper Sparrow - 2 (dunes) Swamp Sparrow - 2 White-throated Sparrow - 250 (8 of which took refuge under my car) White-crowned Sparrow - 11 Fox Sparrow - 1 Song Sparrow -15 Chipping Sparrow - 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 30 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 8 Black-and-White Warbler - 2 Hermit Thrush - 8 Brown Thrasher - 2 Gray Catbird - 2 Northern Flicker - 25 OTHER: Great Egret - 1 Double-crested Cormorant - 15 American Coot - 2 Caspian Tern - 3 On a last minute hope, I hit Fairport Harbor. Good numbers of swallows were seen over the beach, hillside, and just in town. Birds were landing on wires, tree branches, and houses. Barn Swallow - 30 Tree Swallow - 45 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 50 Purple Martin - 2 Chimney Swift - 10 Cheers Jen Jen Brumfield Akron, Ohio [log in to unmask] Birding America / www.birding-america.com Illustrator/Naturalist, Cleveland Metroparks Nikon Birding Optics ProStaff/ nikonusa.com Editorial Advisor, A Bird's-Eye View / ABA personal site: www.meadowhawkart.com "Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will." - Lawrence Durrell "Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventure." - L. Drachman _________________________________________________________________ Don’t quit your job – Take Classes Online and Earn your Degree in 1 year. Start Today! http://www.classesusa.com/clickcount.cfm?id=866146&goto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.classesusa.com%2Ffeaturedschools%2Fonlinedegreesmp%2Fform-dyn1.html%3Fsplovr%3D866144 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]