There were more than 100 Ring-billed Gulls on Caesar Creek beach this morning. As the summer resident flock builds up it often attracts less common gulls and shorebirds. There were 7 Killdeer also present and making enough noise for three times as many. The pond near the viewing platform had 2 Solitary Sandpipers working the edge which provides limited but good shorebird habitat. I hope these are the vanguard of many more species to come. There were also 6 more Killdeer feeding in the mud. HOT Weather Cheers, Larry Gara, Wilmington ______________________________________________________________________ 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]