I stopped by this MetroPark for an hour yesterday afternoon to check for waterbird & landbird migrants. Water levels continue to be ridiculously low, so that only the west half of Ellis Pond and a small portion of Teal Pond still have any water. Great Egrets were totally gone, so last weeks 28 birds must have been migrants. No swallows, which is very unusual here. What was there included Great Blue Heron - 9 scattered between both ponds Wood Ducks - 6, all at Teal Pond Green-winged Teal - 5, at Teal Pond, naturally Sandhill Cranes - 3 resting in grassflats at eastern end of Ellis Pond Kildeer - about 50 scattered between the 2 ponds Solitary Sandpipers - 2 at Ellis Lesser Yellowlegs - 3 at Ellis Pectoral Sandpipers - 10 at Ellis Least Sandpipers - 2 at Ellis Semipalmated Sandpipers - 20 at Ellis Willow Flycatcher - 1 along Meadowlark Trail west of Ellis Pond Yellow Warbler - 1 juvenile at the Wood Duck picnic area Bobolinks - 4-5 in the grassflats around Teal Pond ______________________________________________________________________ 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]