Thanks to everyone who sent such detailed directions to Conneaut. We didn't turn up the Piping Plover or Least Bitterns, but we still had a pretty great day. The highlight of which was watching an Avocet feeding voraciously at only 25 yards. American Avocet Semipalmated Plover Western Sandpiper Short Billed Dowitcher Least Sandpiper Caspian Tern Bald Eagle Bonaparte's Gull Herring Gull Ring Billed Gull Yellow Warbler Plus a cast of regulars. All the shorebirds were seen at amazingly close distances and no scope was necessary. Greg Emmert Akron, OH _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=PID23384::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:NF_BR_sync:082009 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]