While exploring the famous landfill in Garfield Heights (Cuyahoga County) behind a medical/office building (near I-480 & Transportation Blvd), in the span of ten minutes I unintentionally flushed about 8 Spotted Sandpipers. They flew from low sparse weeds and each did an almost Killdeer-like injured-bird display. I assume they flushed from their nests. Half were in the crown vetch on a fairly steep slope, about 100 yards from the nearest water (a small pond) and about 50 to 100 feet higher in elevation; the rest were higher on the plateau. After each flush I would then think there can’t be any more, yet as I tried to avoid a displaying bird, I’d flush another. The entire area where they were found was only about ½ to 1 acre of the 20 acres or so of undeveloped landfill, so I wonder how many more nested there. I couldn’t find any documentation on Spotted Sandpiper nests other than location and # of eggs. Has anyone else ever seen this nest-density for Spotted Sandpipers? Fred Dinkelbach ______________________________________________________________________ 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]