This afternoon, I checked for the whimbrels that had been reported in the mudflats along Rt 95 at Funk. When they were reported last week, I was in Michigan, so could not get there until now. They were gone (at least I did not find them), but there were a nice selection of shorebirds scattered across that giant mudflat. There were well over 100 each of semipalmated plovers and semipalmated sandpipers. In beautiful breeding plumage were four black-bellied plovers and one ruddy turnstone. With the couple of spotted sandpipers and the killdeer, that made six shorebird species for my mid-afternoon visit. I drove Wilderness Rd and pished up a female dickcissel from an unplowed field grown to tall weeds on the north side of the road about halfway between Funk and Elyria Roads. I also got a red-headed woodpecker at the far east side of the road, making a total of 31 species sighted. Randy Rowe, Wooster. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]