thanks to the alert from Chris Pierce on Monday, we visited Sandy Ridge (Lorain Metro Parks) on Tues Jul 26. from 9:30-11:30 we observed many shorebirds occasionally being scattered by a peregrine falcon, who flew low, landed in trees and on the ground, but never attempted to actually catch anything. seen: least, semi-palmated, pectoral, spotted, solitary, stilt sandpipers, short-billed dowitcher, pied-billed grebe, plus many each of killdeer, both yellowlegs, gr blue heron, gr egret, and a great many broods of mallard and wood duck. also a Baltimore oriole feeding at a hummingbird feeder. Elaine & Marty Cohen ______________________________________________________________________ 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]