My wife and I spent some time birding the Battelle-Darby wetlands this morning. Here are a few highlights: Kuhlwein Rd. Wetlands: American Bittern, Sora and Virginia Rails Wetlands (from the silos): Dunlin (3), Semipalm. Plover, Spotted Sandpiper, and some other shorebirds (plovers?) too distant to ID through the heat shimmer. Wetlands (south of the silos): Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs, Spotted Sandpiper, Killdeer, Pectoral Sandpiper and 6 Long-billed Dowitchers. The southern part of the wetlands can be observed from the small pull-off on the west side of Darby Crk. Dr., about half way between the silos and the and the turn off into the Cedar Ridge area. Dowitchers were best seen while standing on top of my van ;) We also had Uppland Sandpiper (and a red fox) on the runways at the Bolton Field airport. Good birding, Paul ______________________________________________________________________ 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]