Liz and I birded Bellevue Sky Ponds, Willow Point Wildlife Area and Medusa Marsh this afternoon. The weather was sunny and warm and the birding was quite good. Here are our highlights: Bellevue: Red-necked Phalarope (1) Wilson's Phalarope (2) Marbled Godwit (1) Baird's Sandpiper (at least three) American Golden Plover (we confirmed one but the other Pluvialis plovers were at too great a distance for us to call) Stilt Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Semipalmated Plover Lesser Yellowlegs Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Killdeer Caspian Tern (2) Great Egret (~80) Bufflehead (1) Belted Kingfisher and a young Peregrine strafing the ponds at least three times over fifteen minutes without a kill and finally tiring to the point of having to land in a dry section of the pond in the SE corner to catch his/her breath Willow Point: Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Bald Eagle (over the bay) Blue-winged Teal (~8) Wood Duck plus a young Coyote with an adult that walked on to the flats just outside the cattails/phragmites - the adult hung back in the thick stuff without veturing fully into the open Medusa Marsh (impoundment just northeast of Route 2: TRI-COLORED HERON (terrific looks in late afternoon light - about 5:30pm) Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Bald Eagles (4 - two adults and two first-year birds) Lesser Yellowlegs Short-billed Dowitcher Red-Winged Blackbird (several large mixed flocks with males, females and juvenile males moving north toward the lake) a small dark brown mammal along the edge of the flats to the far east of the pond that may have been a Mink - definitely not a Muskrat Medusa Marsh (open marsh visible further east on Barrett Road): Great Egret (I counted at least 190 birds) Great Blue Heron Snowy Egret Wood Duck Caspian Tern Good birding! Tim and Liz Colborn North Olmsted, 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]