Thursday, Sept. 17 - 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Viewable from the first parking area overlooking the water: Bald eagle DC cormorants Great egrets Great blue herons Green heron Belted kingfisher Wood ducks Mallards Ring-billed gulls Blue-winged teals Cedar waxwings The following sightings including shorebirds were viewable on the mudflats at the north end of the "lake": Peregrine falcon (Has been cruising the mudflats for the last 3 days. Hoping for a shorebird lunch?) Captured it in the scope this morning--great view! Short-billed dowitcher Lesser and greater yellowlegs Killdeers Blue-winged teals Mallards Wood ducks Cedar waxwings Eastern phoebes Pileated and red-bellied woodpeckers Bluejays Tree swallows Chimney swifts Turkey vultures Great egrets Great blue herons North Park: Bald eagle - imm. Red-tailed hawk Turkey vultures Good birding, Ed and Bev Neubauer ______________________________________________________________________ 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]