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Craig Holt <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 17 May 2008 08:34:50 -0700
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Here's the highlights from Ashtabula Co. yesterday 5/16---at Conneaut harbor:  male n. pintail (late), green heron, Am. coot, a first-summer FRANKLIN'S GULL, 19 Bonaparte's gulls, a first-cycle LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, 49 great black-backed gulls, 12 Caspian terns.  Zero migrant shorebirds there.  A male lesser scaup was on a lake in Plymouth Twp.  Wild turkeys and Am. kestrel in Colebrook Twp.  I finally got to meet the man who manages the Orwell Marsh.  I learned much, and got permission to walk the property (100 acres) in the future.  This is a mitigation wetlands project, in it's eighth year.  The habitat there is superb, the best accessible marsh complex in Ashtabula Co. that I know of.  I told him this, and also gushed on about some of the regionally rare birds I've been finding there the last couple years.  Surprisingly, he mentioned that Ohio EPA and ODNR have complained that this wetlands isn't of "high enough quality" to suit their tastes!  They based their
 opinions mostly on a botanical survey there, stating that the presence of certain bird and mammal species (such as river otter) were not useful indicators of wetlands quality!!!  I arranged to send him a list of bird species which I've documented as using the marsh property.  And I thanked him profusely for doing such a  good job there.  Anyways, here's what I found at the Orwell Marsh yesterday afternoon:  blue-winged teal, a hen hooded merganser w/9 young, 2 great egrets, 9 semipalmated plovers, lesser yellowlegs, solitary sandpiper, 8 spotted sandpipers, 15 least sandpipers, dunlin, red-headed woodpecker, pileated woodpecker, great crested flycatcher, e. wood-pewee, e. kingbird, warbling vireos, tree swallows, cerulean warbler, scarlet tanagers, swamp sparrow, savannah sparrow, Baltimore orioles.  Back at home in Poland Twp., an imm. male purple finch was singing in my yard here in Mahoning Co.   Later, Craig


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