I traveled a big loop today in NE Ohio searching for shorebirds.  I'd rather have had more birds and less miles, but so it goes with this group by late September.  I had 12 species total.  Early morning at Conneaut harbor: 5 black-bellied plovers, 4 Am. golden-plovers, killdeer, semipalmated plover, greater yellowlegs, ruddy turnstone, sanderling, and semipalmated sandpiper.  Also here were great egret, great black-backed gull, Caspian terns, belted kingfishers, chimney swifts, 2 Carolina wrens, gray catbirds, and cedar waxwings.  Over at Malek Pk. were more killdeers, n. flicker, e. bluebird, and 25 chipping sparrows.  A little farther west at Ashtabula harbor, all I saw of note were 150+ double-crested cormorants.  Long drive to Lorain, parked and walked around all the impoundments.  Found 12 killdeers, semipalmated plover, 2 solitary sandpipers, semipalmated sandpiper, and 2 pectoral sandpipers.  Also n. shoveler, 6 green-winged teal, sora,
 tree swallow, and a few warblers--most were only briefly seen or heard.  A yellow-rumped and 2 yellow warblers were all I could positively ID.  It was windy enough that most of the songbirds were probably hunkered down.  One more long drive to Berlin Res.  Shorebirds here: 30 killdeers, 2 greater yellowlegs, 3 lesser yellowlegs, 4 semipalmated sandpipers, 10 least sandpipers, and 3 pectoral sandpipers.  Also here were 30 great blue herons, 11 great egrets, and hundreds of ring-billed gulls.  Later, Craig




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