Greetings! As the water evaporates, more mud is being exposed. While the Western was not spotted today, Cam Lee Spotted a Shorebird that was not like the others...sounds like Sesame Street. :-D We all got our scopes on it and ID'ed it as an Upland Sandpiper....hasn't been seen or heard in Marion County for a couple of years.and hasn't been a regular for well over a decade. Hopefully it was a local, and not one migrating through. It would be nice to regularly see and hear them again in Marion County. Everything else was pretty typical...we even had a Sanderling struggling to navigate the mudflats... eBird list is below. Follow the link to the online list for a picture of the upland. Looks to be a promising shorebird migration. Happy Birding and God Bless! Steve J. Big Island Wildlife Area--North of Larue-Prospect Rd., Marion, Ohio, US Aug 13, 2016 8:30 AM - 12:02 PM Protocol: Traveling 0.402 kilometer(s) Comments: <br>Submitted from eBird Android 1.3-beta2 34 species Canada Goose 2 Trumpeter Swan 2 Mallard 12 Double-crested Cormorant 4 Great Blue Heron 12 Turkey Vulture 3 Bald Eagle 6 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Black-bellied Plover 1 Semipalmated Plover 30 Killdeer 50 Upland Sandpiper 1 Stilt Sandpiper 3 Sanderling 1 Least Sandpiper 50 Pectoral Sandpiper 30 Semipalmated Sandpiper 30 Short-billed Dowitcher 2 Wilson's Snipe 3 Wilson's Phalarope 1 Solitary Sandpiper 3 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 12 Caspian Tern 8 Mourning Dove 2 Eastern Kingbird 1 Purple Martin 2 Tree Swallow 10 Barn Swallow 10 European Starling 50 Song Sparrow 1 Red-winged Blackbird 8 American Goldfinch 12 House Sparrow 2 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/ checklist/S31077207 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]