Greetings---today 10/25 I made my first-ever visit to Shenango WA in Trumbull Co.  Access is right off State Rte. 87 near Kinsman.  There are extensive, high-quality wetlands here.  Nice woods and brushy areas too.  Exercise proper caution as there are hunters about.  Among the birds present were red-headed woodpeckers, brown creeper, golden-crowned kinglet, e. bluebirds, yellow-rumped warblers, and rusty blackbirds.  I'm sure I would have found more if I'd been there in the morning instead of mid-day.  There is great habitat for rarer nesters such as (hopefully) teal, bitterns, rails, moorhens, etc.  Plenty of snags with woodpecker holes suitable for prothonotary warblers and other cavity nesters.  I will definitely be doing some OBBA2 atlassing here next year.  I also took a look around Pymatuning.  The gathering of ducks and shorebirds at the west end of the causeway is no more.  I only had 1 lesser yellowlegs, overhead.  The PA side has a good variety of waterfowl and
 raptors.  There were no divers visible from the causeway.   Later, Craig
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