Greetings---Highlights from the far NE today--at Conneaut harbor:  drake n. pintail, c. loon, osprey, 2 peregrine falcons, Am. coot, semipalmated plover, least sandpipers, dunlins, Bonaparte's gulls, 25 great black-backed gulls, 27 Caspian terns, palm warbler.  At Malek Park in Conneaut:  2 green herons, female n. harrier, solitary sandpiper, spotted sandpipers, least sandpipers, 8 white-crowned sparrows, female purple finch.  At Plymouth Marsh:  female n. harrier, 2 marsh wrens, swamp sparrows.  A wild turkey was in Jefferson Twp.  At Orwell Marsh:  3 blue-winged teal, lesser yellowlegs.  At Mosquito L/WA:  2 ruddy ducks, 2 bald eagles, osprey, peregrine falcon, Bonaparte's gull, 4 Forster's terns, barred owl, willow flycatcher, yellow-throated vireo, purple martins, cliff swallows, wood thrush, 2 prothonotary warblers, 2 cerulean warblers, black-throated green warbler, Am. redstarts, scarlet tanager, rose-breasted grosbeaks, white-crowned sparrow, bobolinks, e.
 meadowlark, Baltimore orioles.  E. kingbirds were seen in several places, and lots of swallows and swifts were hawking insects low over water.  Bobolinks are more widespread and numerous in Ashtabula/Trumbull/Mahoning Cos. this spring than usual.  No shortage of yellow warblers either!  Later, Craig

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