As per Julie Gee's recent posting, I headed out to the flooded soccer fields behind the Athens Walmart during my lunch break today in hopes of relocating the Willets. No luck, but I did find 2 Solitary Sandpipers foraging in the shallows of the flooded field. The only other water birds I saw ere some Canada Geese and Mallards. For those unfamiliar with the area, this large field abuts the Hocking River, and is accessible via the HockHocking Adena Bikeway. Also observed during my brief time there were gobs of Red-winged Blackbirds and Grackles, Northern Rough-winged Swallows, Tree Swallows, Cliff Swallows and Barn Swallows. Warblers included Common Yellowthroat and Yellow Warbler. I heard and saw my FOS Orchard Oriole in a tree bordering the bike path. To my surprise, I did not hear or see a single Killdeer, which is unusual in this particular area. Heather Aubke Athens -- Come visit me in the hills at Heather of the Hills<http://heather-heatherofthehills.blogspot.com/> http://heatherofthehills.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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]