Birding was kind of slow this morning at Sandy Ridge, except for the large number of Yellow-rumped Warblers. The best of the lot was a single Long- billed Dowitcher amongst the many Killdeer and a Lincoln's Sparrow. Location: Sandy Ridge Reservation Observation date: 10/13/08 Number of species: 38 Canada Goose 10+ Wood Duck 6 Mallard 20+ Green-winged Teal 15 Great Blue Heron 3 Great Egret 6 Green Heron 0 Bald Eagle 1 Killdeer 20+ Spotted Sandpiper 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 5 Long-billed Dowitcher 1 Wilson's Snipe 2 Mourning Dove 3 Chimney Swift 20+ Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Downy Woodpecker 5 Blue Jay 6 Tree Swallow 8 Black-capped Chickadee 7 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Brown Creeper 1 Winter Wren 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3 Eastern Bluebird 5 American Robin 8 European Starling 25+ Yellow-rumped Warbler 30+ Palm Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 2 Field Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 7 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 Swamp Sparrow 4 White-throated Sparrow 10 White-crowned Sparrow 7 Indigo Bunting 1 Red-winged Blackbird 150+ House Sparrow 8 Robert Jackson Broadview Heights, 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]