There is little to no shorebird habitat at Deer Creek right now. But the beach is always worth a stop. During the last three days: Tues. eve - The usual 100+ Ring-billed gulls, 6 Caspian Terns, 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper, 1 Osprey, Killdeer, Double-crested Cormorants, Great Blue Herons. The Dick Road wetland was a Wood Duck factory this summer, Pied-billed Grebes, lots of swallows, 1 Belted Kingfisher. Weds. morning at the beach - the usual RBGU and KILL, 2 Spotted Sandpipers, 9 Common Terns flew in, 2 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 1 Sanderling (first year). The middle wetland holds 100+ Wood Ducks, Pied-billed Grebes, Blue-winged Teal. Eastern Kingbirds are everywhere. Swallows also - Purple Martins, Barn, Cliff, Rough-winged for certain. No shorebird habitat. Thurs AM at the beach - 2 Ospreys, 1 Sanderling, 1 Forster's Tern (first year), 3 Least Sandpipers, plus the RBGU and KILL. Melanie Shuter Circleville, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]