Brad Sparks just called, and he was looking at a flock of 14 marbled godwits, seen north of the Wood DUck Pond observation deck at Pickerington Ponds. This is as far as I know a record number for Franklin County, and an excellent spring record for Ohio, as Peterjohn calls the species "casual to rare" at the season along the Erie shore, and "accidental" in the interior of the state, with a high count of nine in 1997. Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ 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]