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Hey Everybirdy, Just did a leisurely drive through Blackpoint Wildlife Drive and L-Pond Rd around 5:30 this afternoon to see what I might find. Came up with 35 species all together. The only shorebirds found on L-Pond Rd were Least Sandpipers but I expect with the aquatic vegetation thickening and the water receding that more birds shall be catching on soon! On Blackpoint Drive the only shorebirds I found were by Stop 4 and 7. 10+ Short-billed Dowitchers 100+ Least Sandpipipers 30+Western Sandpipers 8 Killdeer 3 Black-bellied Plovers 12 Ruddy Turnstones 20+ Greater Yellowlegs 14+ Lesser Yellowlegs- seems they are new arrivals as I had not seen any Lessers all week Mysteriously absent were Willets and Black-necked Stilts along the drive. I know there are a few behind Pumphouse Rd (Willets), Last time I saw BN Stilts on the Drive was last week, about a dozen flew overhead just past stop 9 on Blackpoint, haven't seen them out there since. There are still a few out on Biolab Road though. See you out there! Thomas J. Dunkerton Titusville, FL _www.pbase.com/boidpikchas_ (http://www.pbase.com/boidpikchas)