Today's bird observers in Ohio should look at relatively recent records, as in Peterjohn's The Birds of Ohio, where you will see how rare this species once was in Ohio. Readers of this list, and of the Ohio Cardinal, will know that observations of black-necked stilts have spiked in recent years, with an attempted nesting here at Big Island WA in 2005, and successful nesting this summer in Seneca County. This year, stilts have been found in pairs in Ohio (three times), and regionally in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan, with several established nesting records, documenting a clearly new presence in the region. Today, reliable observers found four b-n stilts in a back area of Ottawa NWR. They appeared to be two male/female pairs. They were in Ottawa Co, but a very short flight would have put them in Lucas Co. The big question is: might these be the two pairs seen in Seneca/Sandusky counties in recent weeks? I have heard no reports of the latter this week. Has anyone seen stilts in Seneca/Sandusky today or yesterday? The pair that successfully bred at P. Mouillee in Michigan has young, but no young accompanied the ONWR birds. It seems this species is on the move, and we can help make sense of this range expansion by keeping track of its movement in Ohio. Please let everyone know if you see birds anywhere in the state, with details about numbers, sexes, etc. This is a review species, and such reports should go to the Ohio Bird Records Committee as well as to publications. Thanks, Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ 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]