There were decent numbers of shorebirds at Big Island and the area today (1000-1800). I didn't hear any King Rails, though I was only there in the middle of the day. Here's the list: Killdeer- everywhere Semipalmated Plover- 44 Black-bellied Plover- 1 Spotted Sandpiper- lots Solitary Sandpiper- 1 Lesser Yellowlegs- 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper- 22 Least Sandpiper- 8 White-rumped Sandpiper- 4 Pectoral Sandpiper- 1 Dunlin- 3 Non-shorebirds: American Bittern Sora- 1 Common Moorhen- 4 Black Tern- 3 And a map: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=40.559982,-83.230019&spn=0.065208,0.160675&t=h&z=13&msid=111541981737930463917.00044e0299312b3edc492 Good birding, Sean -- Sean Williams Ohio Wesleyan University(attending from Boston) Delaware, OH [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]