Today the Five Rivers Metro Park Bird Brigade made a trip to the Great Miami Mitigation Bank to perform a breeding bird survey. Chris Zacharias, Amanda Lawson, Eric Elvert and I flushed and chased an Upland Sandpiper. Life bird for some (all?) of us. Also a few Solitary Sandpipers. A few members of the team recorded a Grasshopper Sparrow. Here is my list from today: Wood Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Pied-billed Grebe Great Blue Heron Red-tailed Hawk American Coot Killdeer Solitary Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Northern Flicker Eastern Kingbird Blue Jay Horned Lark Northern Rough-winged Swallow Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Eastern Bluebird American Robin European Starling Palm Warbler Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Northern Cardinal Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird ______________________________________________________________________ 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]