Greetings---I spent 5/20 in Ashtabula Co.  Conneaut was almost devoid of shorebirds, only migrants were a black-bellied plover and a dunlin.  There were plenty of other good birds though, both at the harbor and in the town just behind the harbor:  great egret, 2 Am. coots (looks like a possible nesting pair), Bonaparte's and great black-backed gulls, Caspian terns, common tern, Forster's terns, ruby-throated hummingbirds, red-headed woodpecker, willow flycatchers, least flycatcher, purple martins, marsh wren, Carolina wren, 2 Am. pipits, n. parula, chestnut-sided warbler, blackburnian warbler, Am. redstarts, clay-colored sparrow (down in the harbor just west of the observation deck), white-crowned sparrows.  Another search in Denmark Twp. produced a flyby common loon and 20 male bobolinks, but still no sign of upland sandpipers.  All 6 species of swallows were seen at Pymatuning L.   Orwell marsh had 10 species of shorebirds, including 6 short-billed dowitchers.  Also of
 note there:  2 green-winged teal, blue-winged teal, green herons, great egret, Virginia rail, e. kingbirds, willow flycatcher, yellow-throated vireo, blue-gray gnatcatcher, blue-winged warbler, yellow-rumped warblers, blackpoll warbler, rose-breasted grosbeaks, swamp sparrows.   2 wild turkeys were spotted in Vernon Twp. (Trumbull Co.) on the way home.  A total of 3 semipalmated sandpipers for the day seemed odd for this date.  No white-rumps found either.    Later, Craig

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