Wes Hatch and I shot over to the boardwalk at Hoover today and had the following hightlights: Osprey- 2 Green Heron- 1 Great Egret- 2 Belted Kingfisher- 2 Shorebirds- 11 spp.: Killdeer- 25 Semipalmated Plover- 3 Greater Yellowlegs- 2 Lesser Yellowlegs- 10 Solitary Sandpiper- 7 Spotted Sandpiper- 1 Pectoral Sandpiper- 6 Baird's Sanpiper- 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper- 5 Least Sandpiper- 12 Stilt Sandpiper- 1 As a side note, the north end of Delaware Lake seems to be much more profitable for shorebirds. It has much more extensive mudflats then anything at Hoover. It is where 229 goes across the lake. I believe there were 250+ shorebirds there the day Jack and I visited last weekend, significantly more than what I've seen from Hoover this year. See Jack's post from Sunday (8/31). Sean -- Sean Williams Ohio Wesleyan University Lab of Dr. Jed Burtt ______________________________________________________________________ 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]