I had a great morning at the Darby Creek Wetlands, arriving at daybreak as Ben Warner suggested. There were hundreds of ducks on the pond that took off almost as soon as I saw them (and they saw me). I managed to identify Mallard, Blue-winged Teal and Shoveler, plus flyovers of Canada Goose. A large raft of Coots was accompanied by at least two Pied-billed Grebes. I caught a glimpse of a Nelson’s Sparrow in the cattails east of the pond, and soon after a second one popped out onto a weed in front of the cattails, sitting there for a minute or two and allowing me to check out all of its field marks! There were also numerous Savannah and Swamp Sparrows. Shorebird diversity was good: Killdeer, Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs, Least, Pectoral and White-rumped Sandpiper, Dunlin, Sanderling, and American Golden Plover. Also of note were two Northern Harriers. Avi Eitam Gahanna ______________________________________________________________________ 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]