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Craig Holt <[log in to unmask]>
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Tired eyes greetings---I spent most of yesterday and a few hours this morning at Conneaut harbor.  There was lots of activity yesterday AM, some in the afternoon.  This morning offered a few different birds, but shorebirds were way down in numbers and diversity from Tuesday.  I ended up with 19 shorebird species.  Their visits ranged from seconds to hours.  Best were: 2 Am. golden-plovers, 5 black-bellied plovers, whimbrel, 14 ruddy turnstones, sanderlings, western sandpiper, Baird's sandpipers, ad. white-rumped sandpiper, stilt sandpiper, buff-breasted sandpiper, and an ad. long-billed dowitcher.  Waterfowl included green-winged teal, female greater scaup (in heavy wing molt--the same bird as last year?), and 4 common mergansers.  Today 221 double-crested cormorants in numerous small flocks passed west.  Waders included 2 great egrets, green heron, and 2 black-crowned night-herons.  Bald eagles and osprey(s) were seen both days.  Yesterday
 morning 3 merlins came through, headed east.  A nice gull roost developed yesterday afternoon, and included only 2 Bonaparte's gulls, 2 great black-backed gulls, and 2 lesser black-backed gulls (first- and third-winter).  Terns were few, Caspians and 1 Forster's.  During the wee hours overnight, I spent some time listening for the flight calls of passerines--I heard some thrushes and warblers for sure, as for ID's I'll have to do some homework there.  Later, Craig 




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