My wife Karen and I walked the mowed trail around the pond north of the grain bins this morning. At the south end of the pond, a large flock of coots had a few N. pintails and one mallard couple mixed in when we arrived. Strangely, no Canada geese at all today. Except for a few peeps along the east bank, the shorebirds were at the north/northwest end of the pond, and included 6 or so least sandpipers, 2-3 juvenile pectoral and 1 juvenile stilt sandpipers, a dunlin, and a dozen or so killdeer. Savannah sparrows, red-winged blackbirds, and Eastern meadowlarks were in the weeds, especially on the north and west sides. Raptors seen were a N. harrier hunting north of the pond, an adult bald eagle perched in a dead tree a few hundred yards northeast of the pond, and a juvenile red-tailed hawk on a utility pole along Darby Creek Drive. Carl Winstead Galloway, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]