Greetings---A nice mix of migrants at Conneaut harbor this morning. I was there from 6:00 until 11:00; a nasty bunch of t-storms with ~3 inches of rain in an hour made things interesting both bird-wise and survival-wise. Highlights were: wood duck, green-winged teal, semipalmated plover, greater & lesser yellowlegs, 5 sanderlings, semipalmated & least sandpipers, 2 stilt sandpipers, an adult alt. Bonaparte's gull (joining the dozen or so summering immatures), the first juv. herring gull of the year, Caspian tern, Forster's tern, and a few migrant yellow warblers. Breeding/summering birds present included: green heron, 3 bald eagles, spotted sandpipers, 2 great black-backed gulls, belted kingfisher, willow flycatchers, purple martins, ~100 bank swallows, and marsh wrens. On the way home, I spotted a Caspian tern at the Pymatuning causeway; the cliff swallows that nest there were all gone. Later, Craig
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