Some friends and I birded at Buck Creek State Park this morning. The eight Franklin's Gulls remained on the beach with a few hundred Ring-billed Gulls and some Herring Gulls. We did not see the Red Phalarope. There were two Least Sandpipers also. Then we checked out the mudflats at the north end of the lake off Grant Road. We saw lots of Killdeer, 11 Wilson's Snipe, 1 Dunlin, 2 Lesser Yellowlegs, and had a single Solitary Sandpiper fly over. The mudflats should be good for the next few weeks. A scope is necessary to look over the shorebirds here. Doug Overacker Springfield, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]