I cannot too enthusiastically recommend the shorebird site from the Ontario Field Ornithologists at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/articles.southboundshorebirds. They accurately recommend the four best shorebird field guides. The site's overall excellence is enhanced by their yearly fall trips, with regular reports, to sites on James Bay to locate and count shorebirds on their migration our way. As we all know by now, most shorebirds abandon their young at the nest site and head south; the young follow them soon thereafter. This produces predictable pulses of old and young birds--often in different plumages--through Ohio. Under normal conditions these departures are fairly predictable, but on-the-ground reports from the James Bay stopovers watch these movements, as well as mentioning other interesting species (mammals and butterflies are included). Check out regular reports on the Ontario list via the ABA; yesterday's is at http://birding.aba.org/message.php?mesid=1159566&MLID=ON&MLNM=Ontario . I invite you to check it out. Bill Whan ______________________________________________________________________ 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]