Good variety today 4/14 in Ashtabula Co.  Best bird was an eared grebe at Conneaut.  Other highlights there were 600+ red-breasted mergansers, great egret, 2 black-crowned night-herons, sora, osprey, peregrine falcon, Forster's tern, Caspian terns, great black-backed gulls, and belted kingfisher.  The Conneaut/Ashtabula lakefront held 350+ d-c cormorants.  Inland wetlands and flooded fields had Am. wigeons, both teals, shovelers, greater yellowlegs, W. snipes, Bonaparte's gulls, and rusty blackbirds.  Bigger ponds and lakes attracted common loons, pied-billed grebes, lesser scaups, ring-necked ducks, buffleheads, ruddy ducks, and coots.  In the rural areas, 5 Am. kestrels, e. bluebirds, horned lark, and e. meadowlarks rounded out the day.  The only swallows were ~25 tree swallows, all but 1 away from the lakefront.         Later, Craig

---------------------------------
Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell?
 Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.

______________________________________________________________________

Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society.
Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list.
Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/.

You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at:
http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS
Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]