Greetings---I spent the whole day in Ashtabula Co.  Sightings ranged from the ridiculous to the sublime.  Started off at Orwell Marsh.  Notable there were: gadwalls, n. pintails, blue-winged teal, green-winged teal, wood ducks, horned grebe, greater yellowlegs, lesser yellowlegs, Wilson's snipe, tree swallows, barn swallow, and rusty blackbirds.  Now for the odd stuff...a trumpeter swan was there; it had a green collar w/65M in yellow lettering.  About 9:30 AM a group of 3 geese flew in, circled, and landed...imagine my surprise, as they were BAR-HEADED GEESE.  They fed for 10 minutes or so, then flew off to the northeast.  I suppose there's about zero chance these geese were "countable".  But everything about them seemed "wild".  No leg bands, wing tags, etc.  I can't vouch for their parents, but these birds behaved like wild birds in every way.  Go figure.  Nearby in Orwell Twp. were a group of 20 wild turkeys (w/5 displaying toms) and a small flock of rusty blackbirds.
 Another lesser yellowlegs was in a flooded field in Colebrook Twp.  Then I meandered northeast to the Ashtabula Co. Airport; here I found more greater yellowlegs and snipe.  En route I saw a couple each Am. kestrels and e. meadowlarks.  On to Conneaut harbor...the "road" to the spit is now open.  Here were:  n. pintail, blue-winged & green-winged teal, 30 lesser scaup, hooded & red-breasted mergansers, pied-billed grebe, d-c cormorants, n. harrier, Am. coots, 175 Bonaparte's gulls, 18 great black-backed gulls, 4 Caspian terns, Forster's tern, belted kingfisher, a lone tree swallow, field sparrow, and 10+ song sparrows.  Finally, I cruised down to Pymatuning.  A few Bonies seen from the causeway, but little else on the Ohio side.  An albino red-tailed hawk was on the PA side.   Later, Craig
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