Work was cancelled today...whats a person to do??? Go birding of course. :-D I went to both Big Island and Killdeer Plains to try and get my local lists caught up. Big Island had nothing new except a Ruby-throated hummingbird. I couldn't relocate the Purple Gallinule...but nothing really wanted to come out and face the wind. Water report is....wet, really wet, like so much water that the puddles are almost lakes! Ground nesters may have had some issues. The wind was so bad that the swallows were flying...and not moving..:-D At Killdeer, on the Marion County side of CH68 had 1 Wilson's Phalarope left. The others could be around...there was plenty of water for everyone. :-D the containment pond that was drawn down on the Wyandot County side of 68 (Pond 27), was pretty barren. Again, lots of water, lots of wind...Tomorrow might be an interesting day... Pics here: http://www.sjlarue.com/blog/2014/5/phalaropin Lists of the day below: Big Island Wildlife Area, Marion, US-OH May 15, 2014 1:16 PM - 2:56 PM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Comments: Submitted from BirdLog NA for Android v1.9.3 49 species Canada Goose 8 Trumpeter Swan 1 Wood Duck 2 Mallard 4 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Double-crested Cormorant 8 Great Blue Heron 8 Turkey Vulture 10 Sora 1 Common Gallinule 4 Killdeer 2 Mourning Dove 4 Chimney Swift 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Northern Flicker 1 Willow Flycatcher 1 Warbling Vireo 1 Blue Jay 1 American Crow 2 Horned Lark 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2 Purple Martin 8 Tree Swallow 150 Barn Swallow 150 Marsh Wren 8 Swainson's Thrush 1 American Robin 4 Gray Catbird 3 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 2 Common Yellowthroat 2 Yellow Warbler 1 Eastern Towhee 1 Chipping Sparrow 1 Field Sparrow 2 Vesper Sparrow 4 Song Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 4 Summer Tanager 1 Northern Cardinal 2 Bobolink 10 Red-winged Blackbird 100 Eastern Meadowlark 8 Common Grackle 4 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Baltimore Oriole 1 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 2 House Sparrow 1 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18403156 Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area (Marion Co.), Marion, US-OH May 15, 2014 3:13 PM - 4:39 PM Protocol: Traveling 4.0 mile(s) Comments: Submitted from BirdLog NA for Android v1.9.3 32 species Canada Goose 10 Trumpeter Swan 2 Mallard 2 Wild Turkey 1 Great Blue Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 2 Sora 1 Killdeer 4 Lesser Yellowlegs 2 Least Sandpiper 2 Wilson's Phalarope 1 Mourning Dove 2 Willow Flycatcher 1 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 4 Tree Swallow 10 Barn Swallow 8 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 1 European Starling 2 Common Yellowthroat 1 Yellow Warbler 1 Chipping Sparrow 1 Field Sparrow 2 Vesper Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 2 Red-winged Blackbird 50 Eastern Meadowlark 4 Baltimore Oriole 2 American Goldfinch 2 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18405262 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]