My friend and I participated in the Black Swamp Bird Observatory's Shorebird ID program this weekend (which was awesome, by the way!) Kenn and Kim Kaufman were great as was everyone who participated. In all for the day, my friend and I spotted 60 species. Here's a breakdown. There were some really cool birds to be found! (We saw some species at more than one location, but I've only listed here the first place we saw them). On Sat. morning before arriving at the field trip, we birded in Port Clinton and saw: Forster's Tern Common Tern Bonaparte's Gull Common Grackle Canada Goose Ring billed Gull European Starling House Sparrow Mourning Dove Killdeer Am. Robin Also before the field trip, we birded at Magee Marsh and saw: Great Blue Heron Red Tailed Hawk N. Cardinal Brown Thrasher Song Sparrow Cliff Swallow Cedar Waxwing Am. Black Duck E. Wood Peewee Am. Goldfinch Ruby Throated-Hummingbird Grey Catbird Red Wing Blackbird Then, we headed to Ottawa NWR for the official field trip (with Kenn and Kim Kaufman). There we found: Sandhill Cranes Sedge Wren Barn Swallow Pectoral Sandpiper Lesser Yellowlegs Greater Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Bald Eagle Semipalmated Plover Baird's Sandpiper Marbled Godwit (!) Trumpeter Swan Great Egret Black-bellied Plover E. Kingbird Short-billed Dowitcher Stilt Sandpiper Double Crested Cormorant Cooper's Hawk N. Flicker We then headed to a flooded area in Bellevue, OH and found: Peregrine Falcon Am. Golden Plover Pied-bill Grebe Ruddy Duck Am. Coot Wood Duck Purple Martin Spotted Sandpiper Bufflehead Mallard Duck Tree Swallow On the way back to Cleveland, we stopped at Pipe Creek Wildlife Area in Sandusky: Blue-winged Teal Caspian Tern Yellow Warbler Overall, it was a fantastic day of birding (19 lifebirds for me!), great weather, and great people. Cheers, Jennifer Lenhart 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]