This Franklin County park is at last showing its potential for migrants this spring. Parks resource manager John Watts reported 200+ Wilson's snipes spooked up by a cruising harrier yesterday, along with similar numbers of green-winged teals and northern shovelers among flocks of expected migrants and overall lots of dabbling waterfowl (with a mysterious absence of wigeons). Pond levels are fairly high in the "old" grassland, with greater yellowlegs prominent; levels are more variable in the 800+ new acres, but cover (for human observers, anyway) is harder to find. Chances are there won't be a dull moment there for a while. I had a flight of 2000+ pectoral sandpipers there on the 13th last year, but I wonder if the habitat will be perfect by that time this spring... 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]