8 - 10 a.m. Got a late evening report of a buff-breasted sandpiper at the north end of the lake yesterday and decided to see if it was still around. It was and we had great views of it with the scope. We were also treated to a merlin that landed in a tree about 100 ft. away--not very far with a 20x-60x fluorite lens scope! At the south end of the lake, we observed 2 immature and 1 adult bald eagles. Watched the immature chase and just about catch a DC cormorant. Lots of activity at the park today. Received a call that the South Park was crawling with warblers in the walnut trees. Other sightings for this morning included: Great egrets - 22 Great blue herons - many, many Green-winged teals Mallards DC cormorants Killdeers Northern flickers Broad-winged hawk Red-tailed hawk Cooper's hawk All of the shorebirds had disappeared except for one buff-breasted sp and a couple of hundred killdeer. Ed and Bev Neubauer, Scott, Dean Porter, Kathy Groves, Jerry Baker, Eileen Roberts ______________________________________________________________________ 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]