We found one Nelson's Sparrow at Big Island this morning. Heading west from 203 on LaRue-Prospect Rd. we parked in the second lot. We walked due north on the dike that separates the east pond from the middle pond. This is the same dike used for shorebirding last year. There is smartweed all along the left edge of the dike. The Nelson's was about half way down on the left side by the largest group of purple asters that we saw. It was down low in the smartweed. There is also a lot of smartweed on the south edge of that pond. We also saw many Song, Swamp and Savannah Sparrows. Doreene Linzell Dan Sanders ______________________________________________________________________ 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]