This afternoon there were finally some mudflats at the north end of Hoover Reservoir. There is a small island off the end of the Area M Boardwalk, and a relatively small area of mud across the water near Area N. Shorebirds seen in these two areas included: Black-bellied Plover 1 Semipalmated Plover 4 Killdeer 8 Sanderling 2 Semipalmated Sandpiper 1 Least Sandpiper 11 Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Also in the area: Double-crested Cormorant 21 Great Blue Heron 6 Great Egret 3 Green Heron 3 Osprey 1 Belted Kingfisher 4 Gene Stauffer Grove City ______________________________________________________________________ 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]