Tom Frankel, Jim McConnor and I birded west OH today, which included Lorain, Erie, and Ottawa. Our target birds for the day were Lark Sparrows, Dickcissel, and American White Pelican. Our first stop was at Black River Reservation to look for Lark Sparrows, which were reported here on the 14th. We walked part of the Bridgeway Trail, but we were unsuccessful on our first target bird. However, we had a nice Yellow-billed Cuckoo seen and heard. That list can be seen here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S19159689 From Black River, we headed up to the Lorain Impoundment and found a good variety of birds. Highlights here were Redhead, Ring-necked Duck, Hooded Merganser, juvenile American Coots, 2 Willets, 1 Least Sandpiper, 6 Semipalmated Sandpipers, and 8 Short-billed Dowitchers, plus many singing Marsh Wrens. That list is here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S19160562 Our third stop was at the Erie County Landfill, searching for Dickcissel. We were able to find two, which were found about a half of a mile south of the main landfill entrance, which is on Hoover Road. List with a picture of a male can be seen here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S19161206 The last stop of the day was East Harbor State Park, in search of the long-staying American White Pelicans. We did not seen any pelicans however. Shorebirds made up for that though. Our counts/estimates of the shorebirds seen were: 1 Semipalmated Plover 60 Killdeer 5 Spotted Sandpiper 10 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Willets 50 Lesser Yellowlegs 10 Stilt Sandpipers 12 Least Sandpipers 4 Pectoral Sandpipers 10 Semipalmated Sandpipers and 25 Short-billed Dowitchers. Complete list here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S19163231 The three of us ended with 91 species for the day. Good Birding, -- Cole DiFabio ______________________________________________________________________ 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]