Plenty of good birds in Ashtabula, Portage, and Mahoning Counties this weekend. Yesterday 30 May: 2 singing alder flycatchers (at least 1 on territory) in Coitsville Twp. (Mahoning Co.); pine warbler on territory at Mogadore Res.; L. Rockwell/Pippen L./Towner's Woods had double-crested cormorants, osprey, 3 veeries, chestnut-sided warbler, and blackpoll warbler; Orwell Marsh held 3 blue-winged teal, wood duck, semipalmated plover, and semipalmated sandpiper. Today I was in Ashtabula Co. all day. Conneaut harbor was interesting, with red-breasted merganser, a flyby alt-plumaged common loon, bald eagle, semipalmated plover, 17 semipalmated sandpipers, white-rumped sandpiper (Mark Vass from PA had 3 on Saturday), 3 dunlins, great black-backed gull, and 2 Caspian terns. I stopped at Conneaut Creek at the SR 7 crossing on the way out of town, and stumbled upon a female COMMON MERGANSER there. I saw this species at another location along Conneaut
Creek last June. Common mergansers are known to breed in only one Ohio county as far as I know, which is Columbiana. Farther south in Ashtabula Co. I saw an Am. kestrel in Richmond Twp.; Denmark Twp. had least flycatcher, cerulean warblers, and bobolink; and cliff swallows were at the Pymatuning Res. causeway. Later, Craig
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