A few hours in Clear Creek Metro Park provided some newer arrivals in the form of a couple of northern parulas, two hermit thrushes, two blue-headed vireos, but no black-and-whites, b-t greens, or yellow-throateds(?). Two singing winter wrens were a delight. The mudflats at Delaware WA Sean Williams described were productive this morning, with a list different, though hardly better, than those posted already. We had one each of the yellowlegs, a dozen killdeers, and about 160 pectoral sandpipers. As long as the area stays wet--and I hope Sean is right that it will last through the migration, though I wonder if it'll be there next week with all this sun--there should be a changing retinue of shorebirds. There were six duck species, too. The best area is on the south end of the mud--a long walk from Leonardsburg Rd (plenty of hungry ticks if you want those, though), and maybe closer from the big dike but somewhat obscured there by trees. I also hear Herr Rd near Big Island WA was producing snipes and pectorals in good numbers yesterday; this area has been great at times in recent years, with species like stilts and phalaropes courting, if not breeding; park and walk rather than blocking the road. 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]