At 3 pm, I found a Northern Shrike on the power/telephone line along the
south side of Veler Road about half way between Rt 2 and the gate to Ottawa
NWR.  The shrike apparently was finishing a meal as it dropped something
when it flew to a small bush along the west edge of the wetland area.
However, it disappeared quickly when I opened my door to get my scope for a
closer view.  This bird may be one of several reported or the bird reported
in the Ottawa NWR area and at Metzger Marsh.  This was the end of 3 days of
birding across northern Ohio after a trip to Bridgewater, Massachusetts to
successfully see and photograph the Northern Lapwing, a post-Thanksgiving
trip after visiting family in PA.   I birdeded at Conneaut, Ashtabula,
Lakeview Park, Walnut Beach and Headlands Park on Monday with the birds of
note being redpolls overhead calling, an after first summer Great
Black-backed Gull wth thousands of RBGU & HERG which were scattered by an
immature Bald Eagle at Conneaut & 50 - 75 Common Redpolls in the alders
along the flats inside the rock wall/jetty east toward the river at Walnut
Beach.  Tuesday I started at Headlands, then Fairport Harbor, E 72nd & 55th
Street, Edgewater SP, Whiskey Island Marina looking for Purple Sandpiper,
unusual gulls & waterfowl continuing west to Lorain & Huron & the Ottawa
area on Wednesday.

Jay G Lehman, Cincinnati, OH
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