Friday, August 14 - 9:15 - 10:30 a.m. Still lots of shorebirds. Mudflats drying up quickly, but we're supposed to have rain this weekend. Hopefully, the weatherman will be correct for a change. Sightings were from the far south end at the "disc golf" overlook, the paved parking lot, and the far north end. Herring gull - 1 Caspian tern - 1 Least sp - 10 Solitary - 23 Pectoral - 25 Great egret - 3 Killdeer - lots! Wood ducks - 20+ DC cormorant - 2 Green-backed heron - 1 Greater yellowlegs - 2 Lesser yellowlegs - 5 Spotted - 4 Semipalmated plover - 3 Semipalmated sp - 5 Great blue heron - 60+ High count for the week is 105 on Wednesday by Shannon Thompson from Pittsburgh, PA Belted kingfisher - 2 Tree swallows - 20 Chimney swifts - 100+ Cooper's hawk - 1 Eastern kingbird - 2 Ed and Bev ______________________________________________________________________ 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]