I received this message: "I spoke with Tom Bartlett last night, who is banding shorebirds at Ottawa now, 300 yesterday.> > He said that there are 1500+ shorebirds at Ottawa now, including > a whimbrel and a willet." I'm sorry there are no details about locations (probably off-limits to the public), or about numbers of species, etc., but thought I'd send this along if nothing else than an additional heads-up that shorebirds are moving in good numbers now. For some additional news from the north, see the post from Jean Iron at http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/SHOR.html . Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ 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]