A quick stop at Wiese Rd and the Boardwalk at the upper end of Hoover Reservoir this afternoon found almost perfect shorebird conditions, with lots of new mud off the boardwalk. An hour in the area found the following highlights: Herons,Egrets - 15 Great Blue Herons, 17+ Great Egrets, but no Snowy Egret Waterfowl - 2 Blue-winged Teal on the flats, along with the expected geese, mallards, & wood ducks Plovers - 50+ Killdeer, 9 Semipalmated Plovers, 1 Black-bellied Plover Sandpipers - 2 Gr.Yellowlegs, 12 L.Yellowlegs, 1 Spotted, 6 Least, 15 Semipalmated, 6 Pectorals, 5 Stilt Sandpipers, 8 Short-billed Dowitchers ______________________________________________________________________ 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]