Greetings---I got up to Conneaut harbor yesterday 6/10.  Of interest there were 3 semipalmated plovers, a semipalmated sandpiper, 4 Bonaparte's gulls, 100 herring gulls (great close study of their variations), 4 great black-backed gulls, 4 Caspian terns, purple martins, and many bank swallows.  Then I went down to Orwell Marsh; I found great egret and spotted sandpiper there.  I checked a couple OBBA2 blocks in the Orwell/Windsor area in Ashtabula Co.  Though it was afternoon, I still heard and saw a good variety of the expected nesting species.  I was pleased to find white-eyed vireo, Carolina wren, blue-winged warblers, and cerulean warblers.  Last, I took a good look around Mosquito L/WA on the way home.  Again, lots of good stuff and better than I'd expected on a hot afternoon:  wood duck, imm. female-plumaged red-breasted merganser (at the dam), 3 ruddy ducks at the park just north of the dam, pied-billed grebe, ospreys (nesting), 3 imm. Bonaparte's gulls at the
 causeway, purple martins, cliff swallows, yellow-throated vireo, cerulean warblers, a healthy count of 5 singing prothonotary warblers at two areas, savannah sparrow, and bobolinks.  While atlasing  here in Mahoning Co. lately, I've found 2 great egrets at Evans L. (perhaps Boardman Twp. nesters), a couple of least flycatchers on territory in Coitsville Twp., good numbers of e. wood-pewees, e. phoebes singing again, no alder flycatchers yet, and too many young starlings.  Later, Craig

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