Darby Creek MP Darby Dan House, the large bare earth field had shorebirds post-rain Wet Prairie parking spot 5 - 8 pm. Darby Dan fields, irregular in its use to shorebirds, best following rains which leave numerous pools. Can;t stop along Darby Creek Rd., to busy, no shoulder. But only a short walk from Kulhwein Rd. Park on left side of Kuhlwein Rd. immediately after turning off Darby Creek Rd. and walk N. 100 yds. on Greenways Trail, crossing Darby Creek Rd. where with a good telescope, scan the area. Be patient; its not level ground and has a large ridge which hides much of the west end. The plovers sometimes sit in depressions on the ridge. Grass patches and grassy pools can be worth checking; some of the closest are in plain view on the northern side (5 p.m.): Black-bellied Plover--1 ad. breeding plumage American Golden-plover---33 Semipalmated Plover--16 Killdeer--40 Solitary Sandpiper--17, most in small rain pools looking N Lesser Yellowlegs--5 juv. Semipalmated Sandpiper--20 juv. Western Sandpiper--4 ad. Wading, legs nearly covered in large shallow grassy pool, foraging with long fine tipped bill down ward Least Sandpiper--26 Baird's Sandpiper--6, juv Pectoral Sandpiper--11 Buff-breasted Sandpiper--14 BDMP, overlook trails, steep wooded ravines (6 p.m) Olive-sided Flycatcher--2 Whip poor willl--1 flushed from ground in dense wooded wind fall, on steep ravine. Watched in make off through mature forest, on long rounded wings, at near mid level Kentucky Warbler---1 imm. dense wooded area of falling dead limbs within forest "chink!" Summer Tanager--1 m. Wet Prairie; standing on raised knoll, 7 p.m hr. +. Air was full of large aerial flys, Two sp. of swallows foraging early. Common Nighthawks in constant view overhead and to the west. Seemed to be arriving in periods of constant streams, then in groups of 50 - 100, in a SW direction. When they reached the WP, they foraged actively, usually 100 + ft., then sliding off. Bald Eagle--1 dark/imm, flying above forest to the west Common Nighthawk--760 Cliff Swallow--80, high Barn Swallow--120, low Only one Common Grackle, no Red-wingeds. One flyover Dickcissel, bzzzt-ing. A few Common Yellowthroat/buntings/goldfinches dropping into cover in bison pen. Only ducks were Mallards, all flying south in small flocks (8 - 15).Still no American Black Duck Good Birding -- David Tan Columbus [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]