No one in the group this afternoon at Tacoma Avenue and County Rd. 32, so far as I know, saw the bird after the initial midday sighting. We sure did search from the roadside, while the wind shook our scopes and conditions dimmed. Joel Schmid called me after we had departed the scene to report that a Wisconsin birder in the group had driven ahead with him along Tacoma and believed she had spotted the sharp-tailed based on warm cinnamon streakless breast and prominent white supercilium. I whirled the car around at the edge of Mayer and came back, found Joel and the other birder a quarter mile or so north of the main pond at the corner, and agreed, in failing light, that those field marks were present. This bird was considerably far back from our post along Tacoma Avenue looking west this time, with a developing rainstorm for a backdrop. My suggestion for birders tomorrow is that the bird is likely still in the area. *Tanya Beyer*
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