I, Bob Lane, am a field engineer for a general contractor. Since
august 8th I have been assigned, luckily at the right time, to a bridge
project in Conneaut, 2 miles from the shorebird site.
          I stay at the Lakefront Motel overlooking Conneaut harbor three
nights a week, giving me the opportunity for several hours of birding 3
evenings and 3 mornings each week. The motel is within walking distance of
the sandspit and the observation platform lagoon.
          As anyone who has been there knows, the activity and sightings can
change by the minute.
In the past 5 weeks I have recorded 23 species of shorebirds and a total of
72 species of birds.
Also, I have met birders from Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana,
Virginia, Texas, and Ontario.


                            Shorebirds from the past week:

    American Golden-Plover   9/4 & 9/5      1
    Semipalmated plover    9/7   flock of 14+
    Killdeer     6+  daily thru week
    Greater Yellowlegs    9/7   3
    Lesser Yellowlegs    9/4    6
    Red Knot     8/27 thru 8/30  4(allowed close approach), 9/4   1
    Sanderling   9/4 thru 9/7  12+ daily,  9/6 Coopers Hawk snatched one off
the beach
    Semipalmated Sandpiper    9/4 thru 9/7    3+ daily
    Least Sandpiper    9/7    flock of 8+
    Baird's Sandpiper   9/4 thru 9/7    1+ daily
    Pectoral Sandpiper    9/7   1
    Buff-Breasted Sandpiper    9/5    1
    Short-Billed Dowitcher    9/5 & 9/6    1 very tame (within 3 feet)


                  Previous and other interesting observations:

    Black-Bellied Plover    8/9  i, 8/22  1, 8/28  1
    American Avocet    8/13   3   7PM
    Willet    8/10  3 , 8/16  12 , 8/22  3    Note: All around 7PM
    Spotted Sandpiper    8/14   3
    Solitary Sandpiper    8/14    1
    Marbled Godwit    8/23    1    7AM
    Ruddy Turnstone    8/20 thru 8/30   4+ daily , 8/21  9+
    Dunlin   8/16   1   Standing with single Red Knot
    Western Sandpiper    8/21   1
    Stilt Sandpiper    8/23   1 , 8/27   1

    Turkey Vulture    8/15   90+ on beach at daybreak, were not there at
dark the night before
    Bald Eagle     8/21   2 adults, 7 nonadults , all in a line on adjacent
jetty wall
    Common Nighthawk    8/28 & 8/29   2 above beach, these were the only
nights
    Purple Martin    8/20    100+



                                               Bob Lane    September 8, 2007

                                           Damascus, Mahoning County, Ohio

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