It was another beautiful Sunday evening at Sandy Ridge. One highlight of the night was the bald eagle, on a tree right next to the walkway. We've seen the eagle on trees out in the middle of the water at night before, but this was the closest look we've ever had at it. The other highlight was four sandhill cranes, one of which gloriously trumpeted for us. In addition we saw many sandpipers. I wish I had been with someone who has more experience with them than me, but I know we saw greater and lesser yellowlegs, semipalmated sandpipers, and at least one other species (solitary? non-breeding-plumage spotted?) We also saw the resident sora, the first time I have seen it there. As far as I could tell, among the many ducks there was nothing unusual, but again I'm not experienced enough to know if there were black ducks or other hard-to-identify species. We also saw all of the other usuals: several red-headed woodpeckers, including at least two juvenile, about 30 great egrets, several great blue herons, kingfishers, tons of tree and barn swallows, a kingbird, an unidentifed empid flycatcher, killdeer, downy woodpeckers, etc... Aaron Milenski, Lakewood ______________________________________________________________________ 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]