Greetings---early morning was pretty dull at Conneaut Harbor.  Very few birds in the air other than the 1500 Bonaparte's gulls fishing in the gale.  Scaup, common and red-breasted mergs put in token appearances.  2 Dunlins and a belted kingfisher were toughing it out.  A flock of 26 snow buntings put on a little show.  Next I wandered through the farmlands southwest of Conneaut, in Pierpont, Denmark, and Dorset Twps.  I was rewarded with a fine gray ghost of a n. harrier (carrying prey), red-tailed hawks, 5 Am. kestrels, 15 killdeers, 5 Wilson's snipe, 525 ring-billed gulls, e. bluebirds, 10 Am. pipits, and a Lapland longspur.  On to Mosquito WA....plenty of waterfowl there:  20 black ducks, n. pintails, Am. wigeon, 60 gadwalls, 15 n. shovelers, 100+ green-winged teal, 2 canvasbacks, ring-necked ducks, 19 buffleheads, 75 hooded mergansers, ruddy ducks, c. loons, pied-billed grebe, d-c cormorants.  Also found were 2 greater yellowlegs, 200 Bonaparte's gulls, 27 great blue
 herons, red-shouldered hawk, Am. kestrel, e. bluebirds, and a robin.  On the way home I spied a n. mockingbird in Girard, a Cooper's hawk in Youngstown, sharp-shinned hawk and another kestrel in Coitsville, and a pileated woodpecker in Poland Twp.   Later, Craig
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