There was a Merlin at Englewood Metropark today. It flushed the shorebirds then perched near the top of a dead trea for 20 minutes or so. Shorebirds seen were: Killdeer 205 Spotted Sandpiper 3 Solitary Sandpiper 19 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Least Sandpiper 3 Pectoral Sandpiper 3 On the Great Miami River across from Carillon Park in Dayton the following shorebirds were present: Killdeer 47 Spotted Sandpiper 6 Solitary Sandpiper 3 Least Sandpiper 10 Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Rick Asamoto Miamisburg ______________________________________________________________________ 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]