Dick Hoopes spotted two Avocets around 6:30pm today on a gravel bar near the boat launch at LaDue. Words spread rapidly and several birders and onlookers were able to get good views through spotting scopes. Here are some poor quality digiscoped images from around 8pm https:[log in to unmask] Hopefully someone else has better pictures and will post them later. Unfortunately both birds took flight eastward about 9pm and went very high as they flew away. Water levels are dropping at LaDue and there are some shorebirds and terns showing up on the mud flats and gravel bars from the boathouse north to the dam (along Valley Road). Matt Valencic Geauga County ______________________________________________________________________ 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]