We arrived at the "sky pond" on Seneca County TR 80 at about 1:45 this afternoon (Mon) & were 1st attracted by the large number of Great Egrets present. After counting them (17) we turned out attention to looking for the stilts & immediately located 2 sitting above the water line at the south end. But just as we located them, the sky opened up & after just a very few minutes we were drenched, in spite of our raincoats. So we decided to drive some of the other roads & just bird from the car. Shortly the rain stopped & we returned to the stilts. They were now foraging a little closer to the road. We could see that one had a brown back. Tried to take some digiscoped pictures but by the time we got the camera out they had moved further away so don't know yet how well they came out. Laura Dornan Stark County **************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars. (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007) ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]