Post-pelagic trip from Port Clinton, I tried for the lately elusive immature LB Heron at Ottawa NWR in the south east corner of impoundment 2C at the chair on the way to the observation platform. Found 6 Snowy Egrets but no Little Blue Heron. There were 6 Short-billed Dowitchers, at least 2 Pectoral Sandpipers, some yellowlegs (uncounted) and some peeps not ID'd as species. When the shorebirds flew around, I heard the distinct peeping flight calls of Long-billed Dowitchers, and it sounded like more than one or like 2 to 3. This LBDO call, described as "keek" but sounds like "peep" to me, given in flight but also on the ground is distinguished from the tu-tu-tu (yellowlegs-like) call of Short-billed Dowitcher. Could not find the LBDO on the ground but found only Short-billed Dowitchers distinguished by the orangish tiger striping in the tertials. Stayed the night up north, returned on Sunday morning. This morning, Sunday, arrived about 10 and found one LB Dowitcher in the SW corner of the wet area in the SE corner of 2C and close to the path to the observation deck. I again first heard the "peep" note and then found it with 4 Stilt Sandpipers, 1 Greater Yellowlegs and 1 Lesser Yellowlegs. This morning I was able to see the dark gray tertials and greater coverts that lacked tiger striping. The bird flew to the northern and middle part of the wet area and gave the high pitched single "peep" call while in flight and showed what appeared to be a darker tail relative to the white in the back than for the SB Dowitchers seen flying Sat evening. Later just before leaving 2C, I heard and saw the LBDO not far from 2 SBDO in the SE cornerand could see the more hump backed shape of the feeding LBDO relative to the much straighter and less hump backed shape of the feeding SBDO. Hiked around 2C looking for the Little Blue Heron but did not find it, found only 10 Snowy Egrets (ad + imm) scattered in the SE corner and around 2C. 25 Great Egrets, 10 Great Blue Herons, 2 Black-crowned Night Herons, 3 Sandhill Cranes, 10 Caspian Terns & 20 Ring-billed Gulls. Shorebird totals: 3 Greater & 2 Lesser Yellowlegs, 2 Pectoral Sandpipers, 1 Solitary Sandpiper, 4 Stilt Sandpipers, 2 Short-billed Dowitchers, 1 Long-billed Dowitcher. Jay Jay G Lehman Cincinnati, OH Sent from DROID RAZR HD ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]