I am told an American avocet has been seen since Saturday at Battelle Darby Creek MP in Franklin Co., in the north end west of Darby Creek Drive and east of the bike trail, Delorme 67:A-7. This seems to be a new record for the park. This is the new wetland where black terns were found recently, and just north of the 500-acre prairie wetland to be restored there beginning this fall, using 3500 pounds of local wetlands vegetation seeds; I hear these areas are designed for a variety of wetlands species, including, it is hoped, nesting sandhill cranes. 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]