It's sad and a little strange that we communicate so little with our birding neighbors/neighbours to the north in Canada. It's as if "our" shorebirds suddenly appear up near the Lake in fall, and for Canadians it's as if "theirs" disappear about the same time. Birders in Ontario make a lot of far more important shorebird observations every year, to which we pay too little attention; check out a handy overall look at shorebirds in the area at this time of year at: http://www.ofo.ca/site/pageview/articles.southboundshorebirds To a shorebird Lake Erie is only a short hop. One eye-opening result that emerged from research in Ontario's James Bay was the tagged semipalmated sandpiper that spent a whole month last year fattening up in the Bay, then flew NON-STOP for SIX DAYS to Brazil, rivaling those little lumps of fat the blackpoll warblers who'll be moving soon... Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ 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]