Hello everyone, After a birder friend contacted me (Thanks Russowl!) and said that there was quite a flock at Bresler Reservoir (west of Lima, Allen County), I headed out there about 11am this morning. There was indeed a good variety of birds. The most unusual was two RED-NECKED PHALAROPES. The dark/black eye/auricular patch thatt contrasted with the rest of the head could be seen at quite a distance, but a scope was required. I also noted spots on the back. The birds were on the west side of the 'island' at Bresler. I viewed it from the dike to the south and was about 2-300 yards away, but was viewing with a good scope. The Kaufman book does not show this species passing through the area - are they unusual to the area? Thanks for any info! (But I was glad to see other red-necked phalaropes being seen today!) Other birds seen: Caspian Tern Black Tern Common Tern Mallard Gadwall Pied-billed Grebe Ring-billed Gull Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Peeps Barn Swallow Spotted Sandpiper (on the rocky dike) Good birding! -Jackie Augustine Lima, 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]