Many thanks to Randy Rowe for his post. I mostly duplicated his sightings yesterday @ the Wilderness Rd drained ponds today. I did manage to sight an AMERICAN BITTERN and saw a mink walking along the shoreline too. I stopped at the Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area on the way home and walked the very overgrown trail past the Observation Tower. There is a nice mud area on the north end of one of the ponds about 1000 yards or so back. I saw several LEAST SANDPIPERS, PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, KILLDEER, 2 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, a SPOTTED SANDPIPER, and a GREEN HERON in this area. I also saw nice flock of BLUE-WINGED TEAL on the deep pond on the east side of the trail. Robert Jackson Medina, 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]