Monday, Sept. 2 - 8-9:30 a.m. Visible from the first parking area in the East (Main) Metropark, two bald eagles (1 adult and 1 immature) put on quite a show this morning--fishing and eating. Also a great many of each: great blue herons, great egrets, wood ducks, green herons, DC cormorants, and belted kingfishers were present. Oops! Don't want to forget the ring-billed gulls. At the north end of the "lake", we had close looks at greater and lesser yellowlegs. Also seen at a further distance were pectoral, semipalmated, least, and solitary sandpipers along with many killdeer (hoping for a semipalmated plover). Wishing for rain to keep the mudflats attractive to the shorebirds. Had a flyover of 2 coopers hawks. Also, a fellow birder had pictures of 2 red-shouldered hawks (1 mature, 1 immature) sitting in the half-dead tree immediately to the west. Happy birding, Ed and Bev Neubauer, Dean Porter, Eileen Roberts, Rick Asamoto, Mary & Stan, Kurt Stein, Lee Reed, and several other birders whose names we haven't memorized yet. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]