Greetings---I spent some time atlasing in Ashtabula Co. yesterday 7/15.  Started out at Conneaut Harbor at dawn hoping for shorebirds.  There were only a few in the morning, including lesser yellowlegs, semipalmated sandpiper, and least sandpipers.  A juv. black-crowned night-heron was a good find (where was it hatched I wonder?).  Bald eagles are probably a daily presence there now.  I was surprised that I didn't notice any migrant yellow warblers.  Swallows were the most conspicuous migrants throughout Ashtabula Co.  In the SW part of Conneaut Twp. I found a few grasshopper sparrows.  Down at Dorset WA I was pleasantly surprised to see an osprey--do they nest here, or was this an early migrant?  Later, Craig 












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