All, One Le Conte's Sparrow and one Nelson's Sparrow in the past few days at Snipe Marsh in Delaware. Ben Warner and I got good looks at the Nelson's today. Here are directions from Ben from a previous post: From Delaware we drove the five minutes or so it takes to get out to the Meijer on RT. 36/37 east of Delaware. This is the area previously described by Sean Williams as "Snipe Marsh". Take the road that is beside the strip of stores and the Delaware Marine boat place on the corner and drive in behind the Kohls and Meijer. There is gravel parking lot on the right in front of a hill and some trails visible from the road. Park there and walk over the hill on the gravel path. Then leave the path and go down the hill towards the wetland complex before you. There is a central dyke that separates the open pods on the left from the marshy cattail and other wetland plant filled area on the right. This is sparrow heaven, there is a good mix of sparrow food plants in there amongst the Cattails. Walk the Dyke and listen for the chip notes and flight calls of sparrows. The best area is towards the north end of this marsh where there are some more grasses and shallow areas. Try to be respectful of the birds and habitat if you go for this bird! That is all. Sean --- Sean Williams, '11 Undergraduate of Ornithology of Dr. Jed Burtt Ohio Wesleyan University HWCC 724 Delaware, OH 43015 617-470-4094 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]