Brad Sparks and I visited the northernmost pond at the Darby wetlands, finding the following shorebirds this afternoon: 2 spotted sandpipers 2 greater yellowlegs 40 lesser yellowlegs 10 semip. sandpipers 2 pectoral sandpipers 6 stilt sandpipers 1 Wilson's phalarope 4 red-necked phalaropes Lots of shallow spots and emerging mudflats in the westernmost portion. Also seen were eight great egrets, several hundred ducks (mallards, blue-winged teals, wood ducks, shovelers), pair and young pied-billed grebes, peregrine falcon, and a harrier (evidently a pair at least summered here). Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ 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]