I got to spend a couple hours at Conneaut harbor on both 6/30 and 7/1.  There were zero migrant shorebirds.  So, no sign of early birds which failed at breeding already.  But it was also odd to see not a single lesser yellowlegs or least sandpiper.  Has breeding been delayed perhaps?  Here's what I did encounter at Conneaut: a juv. hooded merganser, up to 6 imm. bald eagles, the first juv. ring-billed gulls, 2 imm. great black-backed gulls, Caspian tern, 2 Forster's terns (one a first-summer bird), 3 belted kingfishers, purple martin, bank swallows, 4 marsh wrens, and a pair of brown thrashers feeding a fledgling right off the edge of the big parking lot!!  I also came across 2 other brown thrashers in Ashtabula Co. while just noodling around; they seem very conspicuous lately in the NE.  Also on 6/30 I visited the south end of Mosquito L., in a short time there I saw wood ducks, Cooper's hawk, 2 Caspian terns, red-headed woodpecker, and e.
 kingbird.  Later, Craig




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