A few days ago, I noticed a nice area of mudflats developing around the Twin Lakes Area of the O'shaughnessy Nature Preserve (off Dublin Road just north of the town of Shawnee Hills). I finally had a chance to check it out this morning and was pleasantly surprised to find a MARBLED GODWIT. The mudflats in this area are very accessible and resemble what you frequently find this time of year at the north end of Hoover Reservoir. Of course this is pure speculation but I would imagine that this bird and the Glacier Ridge MP bird are the same individual. Fifteen minutes after I had this bird, Glacier Ridge proved to be godwit-less. As the crow flies, this nature preserve is only 4 miles from the Glacier Ridge wetland. Considering the easy access to O'shaughnessy Nature Preserve, this area should be checked often. There were many great birds there. Surprisingly, the most common shorebird species was Solitary Sandpiper and I ended with a total of 27 birds. This considering that there were about 20 Killdeer and only 2 Lesser Yellowlegs. Over the course of 1 hour, there seemed be quite a bit of turn-over. The godwit arrived about 20 minutes after I did. The link below shows nice sat. imagery of the nature preserve. Good birding! http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=118339238971239494586.0004559bf5267ae00aa71&ll=40.169167,-83.134704&spn=0.023119,0.038624&t=h&z=15 Aaron Boone Columbus, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]