Hello everybody, I was amongst an impressive group of 23 birders who braved the rainy weather yesterday to see shorebirds on a walk at Ottawa led by Chris Knoll. The highlight was an American Avocet seen in pool 2a along with many other shorebird species. It had apparently arrived very recently because it had not been reported by anyone who had been there on Friday. We walked around pool 2a, but the east side of this impoundment was by far the most productive. Here is a link to a map of Ottawa's walking trails from Black Swamp Bird Observatory's web site: http://www.bsbo.org/birding/pdf/OttawaNWR-Trails.pdf A little blue heron was also spotted in MS 8b. Here are some other notable shorebird species seen during our walk: Common snipe Short-billed dowitcher Lesser yellowlegs Greater yellowlegs Solitary sandpiper Pectoral sandpiper Stilt sandpiper Spotted sandpiper Least sandpiper Semipalmated sandpiper Jim Witter Seasonal Naturalist Sportsmen's Migratory Bird Center Magee Marsh Wildlife Area 13229 W. St. Rt. 2 Oak Harbor, OH 43449 419-898-0960 ext. 29 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]