Yesterday 11/9 I spent some time up in Ashtabula Co.  Conneaut harbor was very good, producing: wood duck, gadwall, n. pintail, lesser scaup, 10 c. goldeneyes, 520 red-breasted mergansers (all flying west), Am. coots, black-bellied plover, 2 killdeer, 5 greater yellowlegs, 9 sanderlings, pectoral sandpiper, 5 dunlin, 3+ FRANKLIN'S GULLS, 500+ Bonaparte's gulls, 3 lesser black-backed gulls, 2 great black-backed gulls, common tern, belted kingfisher, Am. pipit, yellow-rumped warbler, Am. tree sparrows, and 5 snow buntings.  Over at Ashtabula harbor I added only double-crested cormorants and 2 bald eagles.  Rural/ag areas in the county had 325 Canada geese and 1030 ring-billed gulls, but little else of interest.  Raptors were very few.  A great blue heron in a field was doing it's best sandhill crane imitation.  On the Ohio side of Pymatuning Res. were common loon, bald eagle, and 200 Bonaparte's gulls.  By then it was getting dark, so I headed
 home.  No luck spotting any owls at dusk.  Later, Craig




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