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Craig Holt <[log in to unmask]>
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It was pretty harsh along the Ashtabula Co. lakefront this morning.  The sound and fury of L. Erie during such storms has always impressed me.  It gets the blood going when the wind is strong enough to shake the car!  Waterfowl activity wasn't as good as I'd hoped for, but gulls put on a pretty good show.  At Conneaut harbor I found:  Am. black duck, buffleheads, 18 hooded mergansers, 200 red-breasted mergansers, 2 c. loons, pied-billed grebe, great blue heron, bald eagle, Am. coot, 15 dunlin, an adult LITTLE GULL, 600 Bonaparte's gulls, great black-backed gulls, common tern, and 13 snow buntings.  At Ashtabula were:  18 tundra swans, buffleheads, 135 red-breasted mergansers, 3 c. loons, pied-billed grebes, double-crested cormorants, 3 bald eagles, Bonaparte's and great black-backed gulls, and belted kingfisher.  Oddly, not a single horned grebe at either place.  By lunchtime, visibility was poor, with heavy snow squalls moving in.  I
 decided to flee south (lake effect snow is serious stuff in this part of Ohio!!).  I traveled down State Rte. 193, which is usually good for open-country birds.  A n. harrier was braving a near white-out in Denmark Twp.  Am. kestrels were welcome sights in Dorset Twp., and also in Gustavus Twp. and Fowler Twp. in Trumbull Co.  Again I found hundreds of ring-billed gulls far inland in Ashtabula Co.; all were in corn-stubble fields.  Many are hanging around the Comp Dairy Farm (Comp-Allen Rd. & 193).  The fields around here always have fresh manure, and often host horned larks, snow buntings, and Lapland longspurs in good numbers when the ground gets snow-covered.  None today, though.  Later, Craig 


     
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