Mike Miller and I birded the mudflats at Johnathan Creek embayment: Gadwall 400+ Green-wing teal 13 Mallard 8 N. shoveler 4 Dunlin 8 Lesser yellowlegs 1 Pectoral sandpiper 1 Least sandpiper 80+ Semi-palmated sandpiper 2 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS 9 Killdeer 50+ Forster's tern 38 Bonapart's gull 1 Ringbill gull 15 In addition, across from my cabin on Jonathan Creek there were 16 COMMON LOON. This is the most common loon I have ever seen from my cabin at one time. Melissa Easley Murray, Ky.