Message following was excerpted from a recent post (by another member) to the Floridabirds Listserve. Note: The same issue/concern has been discussed with local management re flooded athletic fields in Fernandina Beach in NE Florida. During TS conditions, local fields also attract: Pectoral, Buff-breasted, Solitary, White-rumped, Semipalmated, Least and Western Sandpipers, yellowlegs, plovers, Red and Red-necked Phalaropes and other migrant shorebirds. "The really sad part about finding the migratory sandpipers was, being at a flooded ball field, the water drew up the army worms that the birds were happily feeding on like crazy. While I was there checking out all the species present, the park employee drove out a big truck with a chemical tank on the back and started to poison the field so the "fine citizens of Ormond Beach" could have their nice green ball fields. We had quite a long discussion about what they were doing and, as we were chatting all the migratory sandpipers flew off and that was the end of that. I tried to tell him what had just happened but he has a job to do and needs the pay check to feed his family. We are at such odds in this world." PR Leary, Fernandina Beach, FL