Arrived at about 4:00 pm. I walked north from LaRue-Prospect Road at first on the wrong dike for shorebirds on the west dike of the first impoundment. At halfway north near a bright green clump of bushes and a metal wood duck box, I found three islands of shorebird habitat on the west side of the dike in the second impoundment. Dunlin 1, Lesser Yellowlegs, 4 White-rumped Sandpipers, 1 Baird's Sandpiper and 6 Pectoral Sandpipers. Just beyond the green clump and wood duck box, I found a Nelson's Sparrow, first heard an interesting sharp chip note and got the NESP to pop up an sit on the grass on islands in the first impoundment to the east of the dike by making loud kissing noises as if kissing the back of my hand. My photos indicate the NESP was an adult with white streaks on the back, unmarked gray nape and gray crown stripe bordered on each side of central crown stripe. At 5:30 to 6:00, I got exact instructions from Dan Sanders by cell phone to the shorebird habitat in the second impoundment along the west dike and met Leslie Sours in the parking lot on the south side of the road. Leslie and I scoured the shorebirds and had large numbers of White-rumps (one group of 10) as well as 1 Common Snipe, 1 Long-billed Dowitcher (1 ID'd) by call), quite a few Pectoral Sandpipers and Lesser Yellowlegs. Just as the light was failing us, I found an interesting bird that could have been the Western Sandpiper but the light was too dim to confirm it. I lost the front part of the cover for my Swavroski telescope. It is canvas covered, circular in the middle with a flap on each side with a female snap on each flap. If found please contact me at this email address. Thanks. Jay Jay G Lehman Cincinnati, OH Sent from DROID RAZR HD ______________________________________________________________________ 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]