On April 18 I checked various areas near Magee Marsh for shorebirds. The depression to the east of Howard Road had about 50 dunlin and a few pectoral sandpipers. The wet fields to the east of the large church off Elliston Road (just south of Route 2) had a large number of dunlin, a few pectoral sandpipers and both yellowlegs. There was one peep, likely a least -- it was in the far corner of this wetland. There are wet spots in the field to the east of Park Colony Road, but no shorebirds other than a few killdeer. I didn't find any other wet fields in the area north of Route 2 and west of Howard Road. At dusk there were about 20 snipe off Benton Carroll Road (to the east) and yellowlegs/killdeer to the west. Joe Sedransk Lakewood OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]