I was out working on the OBBA2 this morning in block 66B3SE and stopped near some railroad tracks hoping to pick up some birds in the scrub along the tracks and I heard an Upland Sandpiper. I was along State Route 41 at Harold Road and near the DTI railroad tracks. This is about a mile north of South Solon and 3 or 4 miles south of South Charleston. I thought the sandpiper was in a no till soybean field west of Route 41 and listened to it for over 10 minutes without seeing it. Then I spotted two of them flying over me to another soybean field east of Route 41 on the north side of Harold Road. I moved to Harold Road and then saw three of them fly and land in the field. Two of them seemed to be paired. State Route 41 is a fairly busy road but Harold Road has little traffic. A scope would probably be needed to get good looks at the birds. They would probably be very difficult to find if they don't call. These fields are really big. Doug Overacker Springfield, 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]