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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