Just got back from a dawn to dusk vigil at Conneaut harbor. Lots of birds, lots of humans at times engaged in all sorts of behaviors that birds don't enjoy. Here's the rundown: 10 blue-winged teal, 5 green-winged teal, 110 double-crested cormorants, great egret, green heron, juv. black-crowned night-heron, bald eagle, osprey, Cooper's hawk, 4 soras, 5 black-bellied plovers, 14 semipalmated plovers, 2 Am. avocets, greater & lesser yellowlegs, solitary sandpiper, 2 whimbrels, ruddy turnstone, 5 sanderlings, 45 semipalmated sandpipers, 10 least sandpipers, 2 Baird's sandpipers, pectoral sandpipers, 2 stilt sandpipers, 7 short-billed dowitchers, Wilson's snipe, Bonaparte's gulls, 150 herring gulls, Caspian terns, 13 common terns, belted kingfishers, e. kingbird, purple martin, yellow warbler, c. yellowthroats. As I left town, 60+ chimney swifts were overhead. There was a healthy thunderstorm in the afternoon, which refreshed the drying flats.
Later, Craig
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