Lunched at Ellis Pond today. Mid-day sun is not the best lighting. The area east of the parking lot featured extensive mudflats, but only a host of killdeers today. The rim of mud just west of there visible from Wright Rd., from the parking lot to the western end near Bowen Rd, had seven species of shorebirds, however: five snipes one semipalmated plover seven killdeers one western sandpiper three white-rumped sandpipers four dunlins one pectoral sandpiper A pair of shovelers were the only waterfowl. That this list differs somewhat from Rob Thorn's of yesterday [Killdeer - 10 Gr.Yellowlegs - 1 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 2 Dunlin - 2 Wilson's Snipe - 6] shows there is probably some turnover. You have to move along about 300 yards of roadside to get angles because of the low sun and the vegetation. Didn't seem to be any shorebirds on the far side. 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]