I went out about noon. 44 degrees and very windy. The best bird was a solitary sandpiper in the flooded puddle at the beginning of the trail from the parking lot. It was persistent and had returned by the time I came back. No other shorebirds except a few yellowlegs. This is the second time I have heard ring-necked pheasants calling along the harrier trail. Barn swallows are in. Blue-gray gnatcatchers, ruby-crowned and golden-crowned kinglets as well as yellow rumps were along the trail. I heard two yellow-throated warblers across the river from the trail near the bridges. The trail under the railroad bridge is flooded and needs at least 10 inch boots to navigate. Peter ______________________________________________________________________ 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]