I got permission from nature photographer Bill Norton tonight for everyone to view his striking shots of the juv. LITTLE STINT at Conneaut 8/19/09.  View them at http://www.nortonwi.com/RareOhioBird/ and decide for yourselves.  I've heard and read a lot of "stuff" about this bird already, especially on rarebird.org.  All of the "stuff" was based on average-quality (at best) photos which I didn't take or post or vouch for.  Also I find it very odd that people who didn't see the actual bird, or hear it, or note the structure (especially the long legs), or study the VERY DISTINCTIVE FEEDING BEHAVIOR, etc. feel the need to put their 2 cents in on the bird's ID.  The Ohio Bird Records Committee will make the final decision on this bird anyways.  So there's my rant for tonight.......So today at Conneaut the stint could not be found, there were however plenty of interesting birds there:  5 blue-winged teal, 2 green herons, great egret, 9+ bald eagles, 8
 black-bellied plovers, semipalmated plovers (FOS juv.), greater and lesser yellowlegs (all juvs.), spotted sandpipers, 10 ruddy turnstones, 20 sanderlings (FOS juv.), 15+ semipalmated sandpipers, least sandpipers, pectoral sandpiper, 7 stilt sandpipers (FOS juvs.), short-billed dowitcher (FOS juv.), 2 Wilson's snipes, 4 Caspian terns, black tern, 3+ soras, belted kingfisher, and a flyover flock of 7 horned larks.  Different species I saw on Wednesday 8/19 here included least bittern, 4 Am. avocets, ad. Baird's sandpiper, 14 Forster's terns, and a few purple martins.  Later, Craig



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