While visiting a jobsite in Ashtabula County this morning, I was able to stop at the sandspit from 8:30 to 9:00. It was raining and extremely windy. Great birding weather! I saw 32 species in my short visit. Good shorebird numbers. Here are some of the highlights:
 
Green-winged Teal     6
Semipalmated Plover     25+
Black-bellied Plover     7+
Greater Yellowlegs     2
Lesser Yellowlegs     12+
Spotted Sandpiper     3
Short-billed Dowitcher     5
Stilt Sandpiper     3
Sanderling     1
Semipalmated Sandpiper     15+
Least Sandpiper     60+
Baird's Sandpiper     1
Pectoral Sandpiper     2
Bonaparte's Gull     11
Caspian Tern     18+
Turkey Vulture     75+ ( On and over the beach )
Bald Eagle     1 (An immature constantly landing and flushing everything)
 
                                        Bob Lane
 
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