Yesterday 6/8/10 I was able to get a full day of birding/atlasing in. In the early morning, I checked some areas close to home here in Mahoning Co. In Lowellville were a pair of ruby-throated hummingbirds and n. mockingbird. An adult male purple finch was singing away in Poland Twp. In Coitsville Twp. I found Am. kestrel and least flycatcher at their traditional spots. Then I made the trek up to Conneaut harbor in Ashtabula Co. Birding was more interesting than I expected out on the spit, so I ended up spending several hours there. Highlights were a drake Am. black duck, a drake blue-winged teal, osprey, 2 semipalmated plovers, 10 semipalmated sandpipers, 4 first-summer WESTERN SANDPIPERS, 2 Caspian terns, and bank swallows. I had very close looks and direct comparisons with the peeps, thankfully. This is at least the fourth time I've found imm. western sandpiper(s) in the late May-early June window in Ashtabula Co. These birds
probably don't go all the way to the Arctic, and always move with semipalmated sandpipers. By early afternoon, people were gathering in numbers on the spit. So I left and went to the Ashtabula R. to do some atlasing. I was southeast of the city of Ashtabula in Plymouth and Sheffield Twps. Birds in this area included e. wood-pewees, Acadian flycatcher, willow flycatcher, white-eyed vireo, e. bluebirds, wood thrushes, cerulean warbler, hooded warblers, bobolink, and e. meadowlark. I left in late afternoon and hurried down to New Lyme WA in southeast Ashtabula Co. Found there and nearby in Cherry Valley and Wayne Twps. were: wood ducks, a hen/imm. hooded merganser, wild turkey, e. wood-pewee, great crested flycatchers, warbling vireos, red-eyed vireos, yellow-throated vireos, horned lark, wood thrushes, veery, Am. redstart, scarlet tanagers, rose-breasted grosbeak, bobolinks, e. meadowlark, and Baltimore orioles. On the way home in early
evening I saw an Am. kestrel in Williamsfield (Ashtabula Co.). Add in 2 more kestrels earlier in the day in Richmond Twp. (also Ashtabula Co.), that made a nice total of 4 kestrels on the day. Craig Holt, Lowellville
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