Visiting the Mercer Wildlife Area this morning and evening, we found the following: Great Egrets X Bald Eagle Ad 2 Red tail Hawks 2 Killdeer 50+ Semipalmated Sandpipers XX L Yellowlegs Female Bobolink!! Kingbirds staging about 20 Great Blue Herons (many LESS than have been present all summer) Canada geese XXX ++ Mallards XX Bluewing Teal X Tree & Bank Swallows XXXXXX Double crested cormorants :-( Ringbilled Gulls XX Soft shell turtle Monarch butterflies XXXX Starlings by the 1000s And this weekend was the boat races (Governors Cup) - if you have never been here for that !!!! you are missing a good weekend!! Jill Bowers ______________________________________________________________________ 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]