In addition to the birds Ethan Kistler posted on I stuck around
untill the heat waves went away and could finally see some of the many
many shorebirds that are at Mosquito Creek W.A. on Mahoan-Blackstub
road. The RED KNOT was still around and stands out from the others by
his thicker bill, Gray ghost look, Horizontal stance and thick stocky
appearance. I was happy about this bird, a life-bird for me and I got
to find the little guy. Bill Whan, Bill Heck, Paul Gardner, Joe Hammond
and the rest of the Avid Birder group got to share in the moment buy
seeing the bird also, as did several other birders who were there like
Betsy Smith, Don and Judy Coch, - it was nice meeting you both and glad
you got in on my lifebird party! Ok, well it wasn't really a party but
there sure were plenty of people there, probably record numbers for
Mosquito all at once. Like I said I hung around and also found the
following:
Baird's Sandpiper - finally picked one out, a Juvenile looking quite
buffy, with nice pale fringes, rather obvious long primary projection
at close range (the birds keep shifting around thanks the the raptors)
Stilt Sandpiper - 1 Juvenile
Short-billed Dowitchers - at least 8
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 1 with the Short-billeds he stood out as being
redder, longer billed, darker wing/body contrast, more upright when
standing semi-relaxed, and being noticable rounder and bigger. \
Solitary Sandpiper - 10+
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Semi-palmated Sandpipers
Least Sandpipers
Pectoral Sandpipers
Semi-palm Plovers
Killdeer
Red Knot - 1 as mentioned above
Marbled Godwit - 3
WILSON'S SNIPE - 1 Kinda hanging around the godwits and Dowitchers
Spotted sandpipers
- raptors 5 Bald Eagles (adults and juv.) and 1 Red-shouldered
Hawk.
Conneaut:
RUDDY TURNSTONE - ethan forgot this guy, still in nice colors
Red-necked Phalarope - 1
White- rumped Sandpiper - 1
Semi-palmated Sandpipers
Least Sandpipers
Sanderling - 6+ running around in various stages of molt plus a couple
juveniles
Spotted Sandpipers
Semi-palmated Plovers
- plus Coopers Hawk and a bunch of Caspian Terns, Bank Swallows, Barn
Swallows, and PUMA
I'm hittin Conneaut again in the morning, as if my eyes weren't
cross-eyed enough from looking thru a scope all day!
Good Birding (good getting 1 lifer, and 2 more year-birds too (3
total yearbirds - not that I exactly know what my year list is) haha
- Ben Warner
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