Like many others I spent the morning at Atwood Lake looking for the brown pelican. It was seen by multiple observers at the east end near the osprey nesting platform at Dellroy. While birding there I found several other notable species including an immature little blue heron. The heron was found along the wooded southern shoreline in the backwaters east of the State Route 542 causeway. It was in the vicinity of 3 great egrets making the size comparison and ID very apparent. An immature black-crowned night heron was also found perched in the trees on the small island next to the osprey nesting platform. Shorebirds included 7 semipalmated plovers, least, semipalmated, pectoral, and solitary sandpipers, as well as many killdeer. And waterfowl included a total of 4 green-winged teal, many wood ducks, mallards, and a single northern shoveler. Finally, other species seen at/around Atwood Lake this morning: Canada goose double-crested cormorant ring-billed gull American crow belted kingfisher pied-billed grebe great blue heron barn swallow cliff swallow white-eyed vireo Carolina wren song sparrow osprey turkey vulture A stop at Zoar Wetlands also found good shorebird numbers with 26 peeps, 3 lesser yellowlegs, 5 pectoral and 6 solitary sandpipers, 1 semipalmated plover, and many killdeer all of which were being harassed by a Cooper's hawk. Dan Kramer Bolivar 330-365-0602 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]