A couple friends and I birded at Pickerel Creek Wildlife area on Saturday. We first stopped at the observation tower on Route 6. From there we walked west to the first dike and then north. We found quite a few shorebirds including Lesser Yellowlegs, Pectoral Sandpipers, Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers, Solitary Sandpipers, a couple Spotted Sandpipers, Semipalmated Plovers, and a Red-necked Phalarope. From there we drove to Ottawa NWR and walked to impoundment 2A. There were a few shorebirds but not much. There were at least 15 Snowy Egrets in that impoundment and the one to the east. We also saw one immature Little Blue Heron but it didn't stick around long. We heard that an Upland Sandpiper had been reported earlier but we didn't find it. After that we returned to Pickerel Creek. We stopped at the next parking area east of the tower and walked straight north past a small woodlot. A little ways past the woodlot we looked to the east where there were a number of shorebirds including an American Golden Plover, a few Stilt Sandpipers, a couple Black-bellied Plovers, and a Wilson's Phalarope. 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]