I was at Conneaut harbor yesterday from 6:00 AM till about noon.  The only migrant shorebirds were 3 least sandpipers.  The big surprise was an alt-plumaged COMMON LOON which had just beached itself around 8:00 AM (wasn't there at dawn).  It was very weak and emaciated.  I picked it up and took it to the lagoon area where at least it wouldn't end up in a dog's jaws.  I got a phone number from the Port Authority for ODNR, but I couldn't get a signal on my cell phone.  When I went back to check on the loon, it was dead.  There were plenty of live birds of interest at Conneaut also: double-crested cormorants, green heron, 3 juv. black-crowned night-herons (where were they hatched??), bald eagles, spotted sandpiper, great black-backed gull, 16 Caspian terns, willow flycatcher, warbling vireo, purple martins, bank swallows, and marsh wrens.  I did some OBBA2 atlasing in Ashtabula Co. on the way home  Best find was a brown creeper at the State Rd.
 covered bridge at Conneaut Creek in Monroe Twp.  Later, Craig


  
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