Just got a call from Troy Shively, who reports draw-downs and water levels are good at the Grand Lake St. Marys fish hatchery, and 300-400 shorebirds (half admittedly killdeers) are present: stilt sandpiper, Wilson's phalarope, black-bellied and Am. golden-plovers, dunlins, both yellowlegs, spotties, least SP, pectorals. The usual gulls and a number of duck sp, many in eclipse plumage, are present. Wet fields near the ponds opposite the entrance look good for rarer sparrows among the others present in good numbers; this is all state property now, which can be entered there or from along the road (looks like a driveway) just north of the house on the SE corner of the hatchery property. Troy said the lake itself had nothing of interest, but that many Eurasian collared-doves are present near the big grain elevator in Celina, where they bred this summer. State College PA has four inches of snow so far today.... 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]