Early morning at Sheldon's Marsh State Nature Preserve was a bit slow with 51 species, including only 9 species of warblers and modest numbers of each species. Later morning at Pipe Creek Wildlife Area yielded 56 species total. Highlights included a good diversity of shorebirds with 9 species (listed below), 7 warbler species, a Common Gallinule, and at least 3 Marsh Wrens. 4 Black-bellied Plover 22 Semipalmated Plover 8 Killdeer 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Solitary Sandpiper 3 Lesser Yellowlegs 48 Dunlin 11 Least Sandpiper 23 Semipalmated Sandpiper Patrick Coy Peninsula, 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]