I was at Conneaut harbor yesterday from 6:00 AM till about noon. The only migrant shorebirds were 3 least sandpipers. The big surprise was an alt-plumaged COMMON LOON which had just beached itself around 8:00 AM (wasn't there at dawn). It was very weak and emaciated. I picked it up and took it to the lagoon area where at least it wouldn't end up in a dog's jaws. I got a phone number from the Port Authority for ODNR, but I couldn't get a signal on my cell phone. When I went back to check on the loon, it was dead. There were plenty of live birds of interest at Conneaut also: double-crested cormorants, green heron, 3 juv. black-crowned night-herons (where were they hatched??), bald eagles, spotted sandpiper, great black-backed gull, 16 Caspian terns, willow flycatcher, warbling vireo, purple martins, bank swallows, and marsh wrens. I did some OBBA2 atlasing in Ashtabula Co. on the way home Best find was a brown creeper at the State Rd.
covered bridge at Conneaut Creek in Monroe Twp. Later, Craig
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