Greetings---well, it really felt like Fall this morning up at Conneaut.  The species mix looked like it, too.  Very few shorebirds or terns there.  Not a single swallow. and passerines were nearly absent.  Since it was blowing a gale, perhaps they were all seeking shelter.  L. Erie was oceanic, but did not yield a jaeger or any unusual gulls.  In fact, only 1 imm. Bonaparte's gull and no great black-backs.   The highlights were:  3 n. pintails, 3 Am. wigeon, 8 green-winged teal, hen greater scaup, common merganser, 2 black-crowned night-herons, osprey, bald eagle, and sanderlings.  I took a look at the Ashtabula Co. Airport, but there weren't even any killdeers there.  Then on to Mosquito L.   The water was up some, and the mudflats were mostly under water.  I did find:  hooded merganser, pied-billed grebe, 21 great egrets, Am. coot, and a few of the common shorebirds.   Later, Craig


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