No specific birds to report here, but interesting habitat evolving smack-dab in downtown Columbus as the river level lowers due to the lowboy dam below Main Street being dismantled. The river lowered visibly during a five-hour business meeting I attended today on the 36th floor of the Huntington Center. I could only view from a distance, but I noted the increasing numbers of gulls, presumably ring-billed, gathered on the re-claimed bottomland. It will be very interesting to see how this progresses. As a commentary on the naivete of the common human: the Columbus Dispatch ran an article today headlined "Pardon Our Mud" focusing on someones concept of visual aesthetics, with rather oblique and secondarily downplayed attention paid to the potential boon to wildlife. Mud is bad, ya know? Pity this is mostly after the shorebird migration. It could have been more interestingly timed. Bob Evans Geologist, etc. Hopewell ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]