I was also out at Pledge-to-Fledge, working Oxbow Island with Ken Davis. While we didn't have any new birders, we did have a decent fallout of migrants. Ken was there at 7, while I arrived at 8, so he saw the early morning flocks. By 9 stuff was disappearing quickly, so this is definitely an early morning spot. Included in the haul were Great Egrets - 7 fly bys, headed south early Great Blue Herons - 8-10 Green Herons - 4 Osprey - 2 Bald Eagle - 1 adult north of the island shorebirds - 10 Kildeer, 3 Solitary, 2 Spotted Sandpipers Hummingbird - 1 buzzing south along the shore Least Flycatcher - 1 near the tip of the island Swallows - very few, with only a handful of Barn, plus a few too far to ID Vireos - 2 Yellow-throated, 2 Warbling, 1 Red-eyed Mimids - loads of Catbirds, plus 1 Brown Thrasher Cedar Waxwings - only a few today Warblers - 10 sp: Yellow, Parula, Prothonotary, Magnolia, Black-thr.Green, Cape May, Blackpoll, Bay-breasted, Black&White, Wilson's Orioles - 1-2 Baltimore calling on the island Afterwards, I spent an hour hiking the flats and bikepath at Wiese Rd. By this time it was hot, so landbirds were minimal, but there was a Red-headed Woodpecker in a snag along the shore and an Acadian Flycatcher and Indigo Bunting along the path. Herons & shorebirds were still active, though, with the following highlights: Great Egret - 12 Great Blue Herons - 10 Semipalmated Plovers - 4 Kildeer - 60+ Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Yellowlegs - 1 Greater, 5 Lesser Pectoral Sandpipers - 25 Buff-breasted - 2 (in the grassflats west of the boardwalk) Least Sandpipers - 20 Semipalmated Sandpipers - 50+ Short-billed Dowitcher - 1 Ring-billed Gulls - 20+ Caspian Terns - 2 Butterflies are still putting on a good show here as well, with lots of Fiery Skippers and Dainty Sulphurs, and lesser numbers of Common Sootywings, Cabbage Whites, Clouded & Cloudless Sulphurs, Orange Sulphurs, Buckeyes, both American and Common Painted Ladies, Pearl Crescents, Monarchs, and Northern Pearly Eyes (the latter along the path) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]