Hap and I visited Mitchel Lake this morning and found much of the same as Brainard and Matt did when they observed on August 12. We did add a Baird's sandpiper and at least 45 least terns with 13 species of shorebirds counted. The long-billed dowitcher and the black-bellied plover still remain. And what about those orange breasted Canada geese? We finally surmised that it was the iron in the water that they had been lolling around in for days. The water is receeding there fast, but it is an outstanding show of shorebirds in W. Ky. Melissa and Hap Murray, Ky.