Berlin Lake in Stark County north of Allliance continues to provide excellent shorebirding. For now, the prime habitat remains just west of the Rt. 225 bridge. Habitat will be improving east of the bridge rapidly as well with 3 turnstones there today. Habitat is also showing up northeast a few miles at the Rt. 224 bridge with several sanderlings there recently. Birds can also be seen looking north from the Price Rd parking area just west of Rt 225 and by walking along the west shore south from the Price Rd parking area. Following is a list of Saturday mornings numbers. Unless otherwise indicated most birds were west of the Rt 225 bridge:

Killdeer 505
Semipalmated Plover  12
American Golden Plover 3
Black-bellied Plover  1
Lesser Yellowlegs   61
Greater Yellowlegs   5
Semipalmated Sandpiper  55
Least Sandpiper    62
Baird's Sandpiper   2    (south of Price Rd)
Pectoral Sandpiper  80
Spotted Sandpiper  8
Solitary Sandpiper   5
Buff-breasted Sandpiper  3  (6 were here last night)
Stilt Sandpiper   3
Short-billed Dowitcher  1
Ruddy Turnstone  3  (east of the Rt 225 bridge)
Wilson's Phalarope 2  (1 south of Price Rd)
 
Kent Miller
Hartville, OH

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