After reading the reports of willets and avocets in the state the last 2 days, I went out yesterday afternoon to see if the bad weather had put anything down at Orwell Marsh.  No luck with that, but there were some good waterbirds there: wood ducks, 4 blue-winged teal, n. shovelers, 6 green-winged teal, hooded merganser, AM. BITTERN, green heron, 3 greater yellowlegs, 16 lesser yellowlegs, pectoral sandpiper, Am. woodcock, and 8 Wilson's snipe.  I wanted to walk some areas at Grand River WA next, but the steady rain prevented me from doing that.  So I went to Mosquito L/WA instead.  Birds there included wood ducks, 6 green-winged teal, c. loon, solitary sandpiper, Bonaparte's gulls, 10 purple martins (at nest houses), many tree swallows, and 8 cliff swallows (at the Rte. 88 causeway).  Just east of Mosquito I saw an osprey in Johnston Twp.  Craig Holt, Lowellville


   
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