There is currently an American Avocet at Big Island in Marion County. It is in the east pond along LaRue Prospect Rd. Walk the dike between the east pond and the middle pond half way back and look east. 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]