I was able to stop at Lorain a couple times today. I stopped around 11:00 and again around 4:30. There were a lot of shorebirds at 11:00. They were coming and going and were moving around a lot. It was difficult to get a good peep count as they were moving a lot. This morning the most exciting birds were 4 avocets, 2 Baird's sandpipers, 1 western sandpiper, 3 buff-breasted sandpipers and a long-billed dowitcher adult.This afternoon there were a fraction of the birds seen earlier. The avocets and western sandpiper were the only uncommon birds that hung around. Golden and black-bellied plovers dropped in just as I was leaving. Here is a list of what I saw. The E and L after the number signify E- early (11:00) and L-late (4:30). If it wasn't so hot it would have been a great day to just sit out there. Black-bellied plover 2L American golden plover 1L Semipalmated plover 23E, 2L Killdeer 8E, 3L American avocet 4E,L Spotted sandpiper 1L Greater yellowlegs 1L Lesser yellowlegs 3E, 1L Semipalmated sandpiper 50+E, 12L Western sandpaiper 1E, L Least sandpiper 7E, 2L Baird's sandpiper 2E Pectoral sandpiper 4E Dunlin 1E, L Stilt sandpiper 1E Buff-breasted sandpiper 3E Short-billed dowitcher 11E, 1L Long-billed dowitcher 1E John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 (440) 259-2751 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]