Steve Miller and I checked out Woods Road this evening. We didn't see Western sandpipers that we could tell, but there were 20+ pectoral sandpipers and at least 2 semipalmated plovers. Also: purple martins, kestrel, red tail hawk redwings starlings robin lots of blue herons 10+ 2 mute swans 1 was a cygnet 1 black duck 7 mallards 3+ woodducks 12+ Can. geese 1 indigo bunting 2 barn swallows Elroy-Ansonia road had 3 least sandpipers and a dozen or more killdeer. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Hickman" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 8:38 PM Subject: [Ohio-birds] shorebirds many-Killdeer Location- Woods Rd., Darke Co. Oh. 11:30am.-1:00pm many-Killdeer 1- Spotted Sandpiper 12+-Lesser Yellowlegs 15+-Semipalmated Sandpipers 5-Western Sandpipers 10+-Least Sandpiper 1-Semipalmated Plover Location-Englewood Metro Park-Montgomery Co. 1:30-2:30pm 10+-Solitary Sanderpipers 5-Pectoral Sandpipers 1-Greater Yellowlegs many-Lesser Yellowlegs many-Killdeer Jim Hickman [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]