Greetings from Englewood, This past spring and summer we entered very few postings from Englewood Metropark (referred to as the Englewood Metropark Desert). Many of you have inquired as to what happened to all the water at Englewood Metropark and, therefore, all the great shorebird sightings. Jim Gardiner (park manager) told us this morning that work to improve water flow through the park has been completed and water is now being pumped in at the rate of 148,000 gallons an hour. This pumping will continue for the next 2 weeks and will provide 8 to 10 inches of water on the "lake" during the winter. When flooding occurs from winter runoff and spring rains, the water level should increase to 3 to 4 feet. The park will also be able to control the water level to encourage shorebirds at the proper time of year. It's been a long and sometimes discouraging process; but, hopefully, we'll have better shorebirding reports in the future. Of course, the warbler and most of the usual stuff sightings were great as always. As many of you know, we've had some great shorebird species show up at Englewood in past years and hope to continue doing so again. AMOTUS ! ! ! Happy birding, Ed and Bev Neubauer Englewood, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]