Brad Sparks, Paul Gardner, and I stopped at the T80 pond in Seneca Co this morning. Two male and two female black-necked stilts were evident; one female was hunkered down on what could well be a nest, located near the summit and the center of the length of the embankment that runs roughly parallel to T80 on the far side of the nearest pond. We lucked into a good spot by following T80 north, which changes names to Dunton Rd in Sandusky Co. This road is closed due to flooding, but one can drive to the water's edge. Here we found four swallow species in great numbers, three short-billed dowitchers, a least sandpiper, 12 lesser yellowlegs, a stilt sandpiper (!), a common tern, three pairs of ruddy ducks, a hooded merganser. The water is only a few hundred yards north of the county line, and extends to the RR tracks. We ran into Doreene Linzell and Dan Sanders at Pickerel Creek WA, whom we joined in walking along the dike along the impoundment with a pumphouse on Rte 6. A calling whimbrel flew over as we talked. We walked in from the east, findng an American avocet, greater and lesser yellowlegs, a dozen s-b dowitchers, spotted/least/stilt/white-rumped sandpipers, and two alternate-plumaged dunlins (!). Several sedge wrens were found, thanks to hints from Su Snyder, at the well-signed pull-off for the prairie fringed orchids along the road to the HQ. Hats off as usual to the local managers of PCWA for affording foraging spots for shorebirds; this one should be good for these migrants until the teal hunt requires flooding of the impoundments around 1 Sept. The rest of the time it rained. You have to wonder if widespread flooding of more normal nesting sites for stilts and black rails, etc., out west might have played a role in their appearances here this summer. Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ 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]