I stopped at Lorain today around 11AM; I was there for 1 1/2 hrs. The first bird I saw was a Rusty Blackbird. I watched him foraging for about a good 20 minutes before he flew up in a nearby tree. The Rusty Blackbirds and Pipits were my first this Fall. I had 29 species. Highlights as follows: Rusty Blackbirds-4 Black-bellied Plover-1 Killdeer-20 Lesser Yellow-legs-2 Sora-1 American Pipits-21 Coopers Hawk-1 Yellow-bellied sapsucker-3 House Wren-1 Eastern Phoebe-1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet-1 Golden-crowed Kinglet-3 ( heard many in the willows, could not see them) Yellow-rumped Warbler-2 Ruddy Duck-1 Coots -7 White-crowned Sparrow-1 White-throated Sparrows-50+ Song Sparrows-10 Savannah Sparrow-1 Sally Isacco, Chardon ______________________________________________________________________ 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]