Greetings---Computer troubles have prevented me from posting the last few days, so here are some recent sightings in far NE Ohio. Yesterday 12/6 I got up to Conneaut, it was only OK with: 12 Am. black ducks, canvasback, greater & lesser scaup (nice close comparison views can be had here), buffleheads, hooded mergansers, red-breasted mergansers, c. loon, pied-billed grebe, 500+ Bonaparte's gulls (with the south winds, they were waaaay out there), only a couple great black-backed gulls, and a belted kingfisher. I went over to Lake Shore Park in Ashtabula, it was slow there. I tried one of the old cemetaries in Ashtabula, it held nothing of great interest either. Birds were also pretty scarce in the rural areas to the south in Ashtabula Co. I was able to find a rough-legged hawk, red-shouldered hawk, only 1 Am. kestrel, e. bluebird, and white-throated sparrow. At the Pymatuning causeway (Ohio side) were: c. goldeneye, hooded mergansers, 150
common mergansers, 30 ruddy ducks, pied-billed grebe, herring & ring-billed gulls (one ringer had a strong pink wash underneath and on the tail), and 5 snow buntings. Here in Mahoning Co. lately the best find was 2 cackling geese at Pine L. on 12/4. Pine L. and Evans L. were good that day, combining for: tundra swan, 12 Am. black ducks, 150+ mallards, 45 n. shovelers, lesser scaup, ring-necked ducks, buffleheads, 150 hooded mergansers, 232 ruddy ducks, pied-billed grebe, 3 great blue herons, bald eagle, Am. kestrel, 30 Am. coots, 900+_ring-billed gulls, 55 herring gulls, and 2 belted kingfishers. The only birds of note around Poland/Coitsville lately were wild turkeys (up to 16 in the back yard), red-shouldered hawks, Am. kestrel, and n. flickers. Later, Craig
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