I was at Conneaut harbor from about 8:00 AM-4:00 PM today. The sandspit was littered with debris and washed-up organic matter, and the pool has reappeared there. Driving out there is difficult but possible. It felt like November today, and the birding reflected that. Highlights were: brant (probably the same one from last week), lesser scaup (FOS), hooded merganser, red-breasted merganser (FOS), 8 pied-billed grebes, 90 double-crested cormorants, great egret, black-crowned night-heron, 6 bald eagles, Am. coot, 2 semipalmated plovers, greater yellowlegs, 12 sanderlings (1 a late adult), least sandpiper, Baird's sandpiper, 4 dunlin, 2 or 3 RED PHALAROPES, Bonaparte's gull, great black-backed gull, 2 Caspian terns, 15 chimney swifts, belted kingfisher, horned lark, white-throated sparrow, and 2 white-crowned sparrows (FOS). The first red phalarope showed up at 11:50 AM and hung around about an hour. It was a molting juv., and spent most of it's
time walking and feeding along the shore (often w/sanderlings). It moved around some but could often be seen at point-blank range. It was seen well in flight also, and the call was heard a few times. The next phalarope plopped down by the gulls also, nervously swam around a a few moments, then took off. It was also a molting juv., but noticeably paler on the head and neck than the first bird. This was at 1:45
PM.
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