Following Kenn Kaufman's post, found 3 other birders at the mud flats around 3pm, just before the rains started coming in. Jim McDonald from Ann Arbor and a couple from Rocky River helped educate me. - Mostly dunlins, black-bellied plovers, sanderlings (+ many ring-bills & some Bonapartes) - 2-3 marbled godwits - 1 greater and 2 lesser yellowlegs - 4 green-winged teal - 1 immature eagle - Jim saw a least sandpiper - Geese, great egrets, no red knots seen On the way in and out: - Garter snake - Green frog - Woolybears ! - Meadowhawk - according to Larry Rosche's calendar, must be an autumn - 1.5" diameter partial snake carcass - Golden-crowned kinglets (Jim saw) - 5-6 Blue-winged teal, a few mallards Quick Magee Marsh entrance stop on the way home: Rusties, starlings, redwings congregating. Beautiful colors all around - the fading water plants, grasses, old crops - even the phragmites contributed its penance of bright orange-yellow. The great egrets were striking against the marsh colors and the dark sky. Forgot my camera. Linda ______________________________________________________________________ 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]