Hello all, The Middle Harbor mudflats at East Harbor SP are a must-visit this fall. The mudflats are at the north end of the impoundment, and accessed via Buck Rd. and the West Harbor hiking trail. Keith Norris and I made a relatively brief stop there this afternoon and tallied 14 species of shorebirds. Semipalmated Plover 60 Killdeer 10-12 Spotted Sandpiper 4 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 15 Sanderling 2 Semipalmated Sandpiper ~200 (another or the same leg-flagged ad. noted, though mud obscured color + code) Least Sandpiper ~75 White-rumped Sandpiper 1 presumed 1st summer Baird's Sandpiper 2 presumed molting alt. ad. Pectoral Sandpiper 17+ Stilt Sandpiper 1 fresh juv. Short-billed Dowitcher (Prairie) 6 fresh juv. Wilson's Phalarope 1 juv., loosely assoc. w/ LEYE See eBird checklist for more details: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/email?subID=S14921417 Good birding, Justin -- Justin Bosler Port Clinton, 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]