At 05:30 this morning at home the night sky was full of the calls of
Swainson's Thrushes (with a few Veery and a couple of Gray-cheeked),
a couple of Wood Thrushes were "puttering" in the woods and two
Barred Owls and a Great Horned Owl were calling in the distance.

I started the morning at Mounds State Recreation Area on Brookville
Lake (Franklin Co.):
Great Egret 1
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1
SANDERLING 1

Had a great couple of hours on the SW side of the Dunlapsville
Causeway at Brookville (Union Co.):
SANDERLING 3
Caspian Tern 2
BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO 1 (imm)
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
White-eyed Vireo 3
Yellow-throated Vireo 1
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Warbling Vireo 3
Philadelphia Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Cedar Waxwing - 80 (total of 210 for the day)
Tennessee Warbler 8
Nashville Warbler 1
Northern Parula 1
Magnolia Warbler 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Yellow-throated Warbler 1
Cape May Warbler 2
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Ovenbird 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Scarlet Tanager 2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2

Over Hubble Road (NW of Dunlapsville, south of Rte 44):
Broad-winged Hawk 85 (coming up out of overnight roosts at about 8:45
and beginning to "kettle")  [Reports from the Southeastern Michigan
Raptor Research website had in excess of 100,000 passing through
Detroit yesterday.]
Sedge Wren 1

Treaty Line Road mudflats on Brookville Lake:
American Black Duck 1
RUDDY TURNSTONE 1 (only second fall Whitewater Valley record I'm aware of)
Baird's Sandpiper 1
Stilt Sandpiper 5
(still decent diversity of other shorebirds at this site, Great
Egrets absent for first time in a month).

Bill Buskirk
Biology Department
Earlham College
Richmond, IN 47374