Hello birders, Buff-breasted sandpipers will be coming ( here now ? ) to a mudflat/short grass area near you soon. According to current ebird records, birders in southeastern Wisconsin & the Chicago area are seeing "buffies". Best habitat for buff-breasted sandpipers is short grass areas, including soccer fields, airports, golf courses, recently harvested agricultural fields and sod farms. A few autumns ago a few buff-breasteds were found east of Perrysville (Ashland Co.), Ohio at a recent green-chopped corn field. More on sod farms in next week's posting. Good birding, John Herman ______________________________________________________________________ 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]