Made a stop after church today to check on some of the spots around downtown Lorain. I found a single mostly breeding plummage Black Bellied Plover that was within twenty feet of my car. The bird was very calm and gave me about 5 minutes of up close looks. This was not in the impoundment area but actually on the west side of the Black River in the area along the river behind Lorain City Hall. There is a shallow depression there that often during migratory times holds some birds. I also drove over near the impoundment. I didn't walk the dikes because they were muddy and I was still in church clothes but I did walk up on top of the dyke near the entrance and scanned the area and there is a lot of shallow puddles in the new reconditioning that has been done to the entire place that might be worth checking out. In one I did see a Spotted Sandpiper but I didn't go searching like I said. Matt ______________________________________________________________________ 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]