Wednesday, July 4 - 9:15-10:30 a.m. Some decent mudflats have developed at the East Metropark and are easily visible from the first parking area overlooking the lake. Our sightings today included: Spotted sp - 5 Least sp - 7 Lesser yellowlegs - 1 Solitary sp - 1 Great blue herons - 100+ Great egrets - 4 Killdeer - 15 Belted kingfisher - 1 female Wood ducks - 30+ Mallards Canada geese Barn and tree swallows Cedar waxwings Warbling vireo Indigo buntings Common yellowthroats Song and field sparrows Northern flicker Red-bellied woodpecker Red-tailed hawk A quick drive through the North Park on Old Springfield Rd. yielded: Blue grosbeaks - 2 (possibly 3--very vocal) Great looks at them. Common yellowthroats Yellow warblers Indigo buntings Baltimore oriole Green heron Great blue herons Wood ducks Mallards Ring-billed gull - 1 Red-winged blackbirds Warbling vireo Willow flycatchers Happy birding, Ed and Bev Neubauer Englewood, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]