There was a male Northern Bobwhite perched and calling in the thin treerow at the northwestern corner of Washington Township's Homestead Park (off Cosgray Road) this morning. He cooperated for a couple photos and continued calling while I failed at my third effort in as many days to locate the previously posted Bell's Vireo along the Heritage Metropark Multi-Use Path. (Perhaps I had the wrong stretch of the path.) Unrelated to the Bobwhite, there is significant shorebird habitat developing at Killdeer Plains WMA (Wyandot County portions). The Roe Wetland Complex (east side of TH-108, south of CH-71) is the largest expanse of mudflats, but Pond #6 along Ch-115 also held quite a few shorebirds. No really unusual species (Least Sandpipers, both Yellowlegs, and Short-billed Dowitchers in addition to the presumably resident Killdeer and Spotted Sandpipers), but I suspect that if conditions supporting the habitat persist, rarities may well show up as migration progresses. I only heard three Dickcissels at KPWMA late this morning, as compared to 10-15 singers I enjoyed last Friday evening. -DSJ ______________________________________________________________________ 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]