Greetings... The lesser yellowlegs was still hanging around a skypool in a
farm field on the northeast corner of Bobmeyer/Gilmore Road and the railroad
tracks, just north of Gilmore Ponds over the weekend. I took a series of
truly awful photos Saturday morning--the best look like that famous Loch
Ness Monster faked photograph.

There were also 3 or so, probably more, fox sparrows singing away in the
West Pond / Cattail Marsh area at Gilmore Ponds. And a few rusty blackbirds
mixed in with the wandering red-winged blackbird flocks.

The waterfowl flock in the eastern farm field skypool was super skittish, so
we stayed well back to keep from flushing them. The species mix seemed about
the same as last week: mostly Canada geese and mallards, with a sizeable
mid-double-digit number of ring-necked ducks, a few redheads, some pintail,
gadwall, and black ducks.

There weren't many ducks in Gilmore Ponds proper, though there were 13
shovelers on South Pond, a few ring-necked ducks on West Pond, and mallards
scattered hither and yon.

Take care,
---Mike Busam
West Chester, OH