This morning Bob Powell and I checked some favorite parts of Cowan Lake State Park. Lotus Trail was especially good. The mudflats at the end of the trail look just about perfect and there we saw: 8 Lesser Yellowlegs 3 Greater Yellowlegs 5 Spotted Sandpipers 1 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Least Sandpiper 3 Blue-winged Teal 2 Green-winged Teal 6 Mallards 2 Canada Geese with 2 Goslings - two more with young at East End of Cowan 1 Prothonotary Warbler - on territory 3 Rough-winged Swallows 1 Barn Swallow Along the trail were: 3 American Redstart - they nest there 1 Yellow Warbler 1 Yellow-throated Warbler 2 Wood Thrush 2 Black-throated Green Warbler 3 Red-eyed Vireo 1 White-eyed Vireo 1 Northern Parula Warbler 3 House Wren At the beach: 2 Red-breasted Mergansers At East end of Lake: 4 Great Egrets 83 Ring-billed Gulls 2 Great Blue Heron The Red-shoulderd Hawk was not calling and we missed a Catbird or, amazingly, Killdeer. Great Day Cheers, Larry Gara ______________________________________________________________________ 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]