I had to go to Portage Co. today. On the way back home I squeezed in a little birding. Wingfoot L. area has some shorebird habitat like usual, but the only birds of interest there were blue-winged teal and n. shoveler. Berlin Res. had 30 d-c cormorants, osprey, 3 Wilson's snipe, n. rough-winged swallow, and 5 cliff swallows. I tracked down a singing purple finch in my Poland Twp. (Mahoning Co.) yard this morning--it turned out to be an imm. male. Later, Craig ______________________________________________________________________ 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]