At the suggestion of Shawn Collins, and because a snowy is such a rarity, I'm giving more details. It was a bright, sunny afternoon. I was standing outside using my spotting scope. The bird passed about fifty to a hundred feet from me, running along the sand. What made me think snowy rather than something else was the combination of a thin, incomplete ring and dark legs. The legs were a clear contrast to those of the Piping Plover, which was present at the same time. If someone could suggest what I might have confused it with, I'd be happy to know. Unfortunately, I didn't have a camera. There were a couple of women who did take pictures, but I don't know who they were. Allen ______________________________________________________________________ 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]