Over 20 members of Western Cuyhoga Audubon (along with a changing cast of independents) spent most of the morning scoping the flats. There was essentially the same cast as yesterday: many least and semipalmated sandpipers, two spotted sandpipers, one each Baird's and western sandpipers, a few lesser and one greater yellowlegs, a dunlin, and two short-billed dowitchers; mallards, shovelers, blue-winged teal, wood ducks,two beautiful male ruddy ducks, and a couple of immature hooded megansers; coots and common gallinules (adults and youngsters); a young black-crowned night heron. No soras seen today, though they're surely still there. Two Cooper's hawks, a juvenile and an adult, made separate strafing runs the lenghth of the water and later a subadult bald eagle drifted past. Earlier-arriving birders reported a Wilson's phalarope and a stilt sandpiper in the north pool but they were gone or hiding when we walked around to the site. Craig Caldwell Westlake ______________________________________________________________________ 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]