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.

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