The 8 American Avocets I reported earlier were later joined by two more, and the flock of 10 gamely tolerated an ever increasing amount of disturbance until around 2:30p, when 3 of them departed. The final straw for the other 7 came in the form of a truck that almost ran them over, even though they were standing in water 30 feet off the beach. They departed around 3:45p. The flyover Marbled Godwit was not seen again. The Stilt Sandpiper was last seen around 11:30a after it posed for some close-up portraits earlier. A Baird's Sandpiper that played hide-and-seek with a few observers in the morning was finally confirmed at 1:00p and is still present at this writing. Probably the same bird as was reported yesterday. Other shorebirds today: Black-bellied Plover 1 (flyover adult, did not stop) Semipalmated Plover ~25 Killdeer Least Sandpiper ~30 Semipalmated Sandpiper ~20 Sanderling 6 Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Short-billed Dowitcher 7 (6 juv, 1 ad) Others: Blue-winged Teal 1 Bald Eagle 4 Caspian Tern several Forster's Tern 4 Twelve shorebird species was better than I expected, and the Avocets put on one heck of a show. Quite worth the drive from Pittsburgh! Geoff Malosh Pittsburgh ______________________________________________________________________ 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]