Hello! While returning from 2 days of birding at Conneaut and the Pickerel Creek WA area last evening, Dan Sanders, Doreene Linzell, and I stopped at Killdeer Plains WA where we observed 13 Black Terns flying over the easternmost cell of Pond 27. At the 2 impoundments in the northeast quadrant of the intersection of CH-71 and TH-108, we observed 3 Common Moorhens (2 juv), a handful of Greater Yellowlegs, and 6 Stilt Sandpipers. Afterwards, we stopped at the impoundment at Big Island where the Hudsonian Godwit took up temporary residence last October (west of the observation platform on the north side of Rte. 95). There was a decent assortment of shorebirds there but not in any significant numbers. This impoundment should provide decent habitat in the upcoming weeks. Shorebirds observed there included the following: Lesser Yellowlegs-several Greater Yellowlegs-a couple Least Sandpipers-some Spotted Sandpipers-3 Pectoral Sandpipers-17 Killdeer-several Wilson's Snipe-1 Stilt Sandpiper-1 Maps of Killdeer and Big Island can be found on the ODNR web site. Rob Lowry Powell, 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]