Here's the rest of the details from yesterday---at Orwell Marsh (water up some): 5 blue-winged teal, green-winged teal, few shorebirds. A flock of 11 lesser yellowlegs was in a flooded field in Colebrook Twp. A ride through Wayne Twp., Cherry Valley Twp., Dorset Twp., and Denmark Twp. produced Am. kestrel, numerous bobolinks, e. meadowlarks, etc. but again no upland sandpipers. At Conneaut: drake n. pintail, 20+ red-breasted mergansers, pied-billed grebe, 50 double-crested cormorants, great egret, green herons, 2 black-crowned night-herons, black-bellied plover, lesser yellowlegs, spotted sandpipers, semipalmated sandpipers, dunlins, 3 short-billed dowitchers, laughing gull, Bonaparte's gulls, imm. glaucous gull, 30 great black-backed gulls, 58 Caspian terns, common tern, 5 Forster's terns, belted kingfisher, red-headed woodpecker, warbling vireo, purple martins, bank swallows, marsh wren, ruby-crowned kinglet, pine warbler, 18+ white-crowned sparrows, and Baltimore
oriole. At the Pymatuning causeway were a great egret and cliff swallows. Also, a purple finch was singing around my home here in Poland Twp., Mahoning Co. on 5/7. Later, Craig
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