Yesterday Ken and I went blueberry picking adjacent to Killbuck Wildlife Area in Wayne County. Of course, the bonus was a little birding time in Killbuck! The surprise (and learning) for me was to see a number of shorebirds (4 least, 2 solitary and 2 spotted sandpipers) feeding on the dense algal mat visible from Clark Road. In addition there were a number of red-winged blackbirds feeding on the mat, too. I believe they were finding insect prey. We'd enjoyed our morning birdwalk at Chipppewa Park (Medina County), too, finding a number of bobolinks that had bred there, but that had not been showing themselves since the area had been hayed. I don't know if they left the area or used the areas of longer grass to molt, no longer territorial. I saw only one male in breeding (alternate) plumage--all the others we saw were in basic plumage. Birds were flocking--large flocks of red-winged blackbirds, especially, but song and chipping sparrows were flocked, too. For some, nesting season is over--such a short time we have some of these migrants. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]