Can anyone tell me why every time I search for "phalarope" I come up empty on the Cornell "All About Birds" web site? The only place I can find information on these birds is Wikipedia. Is there a common name under which I should search?
Thanks
Tim Hutson
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Subject: [Ohio-birds] north coast birding--Conneaut, Lorain, and Pipe Creek WA
I didn't plan on visiting all 3 of these sites today, but it worked out that way. I was at Conneaut 7:00--10:30 AM. Some movement in the first hour, then very slow until I left. Birds of note: blue-winged teal, 5 green-winged teal, pied-billed grebe, 8 bald eagles, 5 semipalmated plovers, 5 lesser yellowlegs, 2 spotted sandpipers, 4 semipalmated sandpipers, 23 least sandpipers, 1 Baird's sandpiper, a juv. Bonaparte's gull, an ad. great black-backed gull, 4 Caspian terns, Forster's tern, red-headed woodpecker, purple martins, bank swallows, and 25 barn swallows. I decided to make the long drive west to Lorain and then Sandusky, hoping for more shorebirds etc. I was at the Lorain impoundment in the early afternoon. Habitat looked attractive but held only 6 green-winged teal, 2 semipalmated plovers, 30 killdeer, 10 semipalmated sandpipers, and 2 least sandpipers. I went across the Black R. to the piers on the west side of Lorain harbor.
There used to be a low, often wet area on one of the piers but a bunch of rubble is piled there now. I did see an e. kingbird on the way out of town as a consolation. I followed Rte. 6 west along the lakeshore, and saw a bald eagle just east of Vermillion. I checked the Cedar Pt. chaussee next, but the water was high there. On to Pipe Creek WA, I was there about 3:00--5:00 PM. Highlights there: wood duck, 25 blue-winged teal, 5 green-winged teal, 2 pied-billed grebes, great egrets, 7 snowy egrets, imm. little blue heron, green heron, 13 black-crowned night-herons, peregrine falcon (2 attacks), 2 black-bellied plovers, 5 semipalmated plovers, juv. willet, 2 greater yellowlegs, 45 lesser yellowlegs, 2 juv. whimbrels, 25 semipalmated sandpipers, 8 least sandpipers, 3 pectoral sandpipers, 1 stilt sandpiper, 11 short-billed dowitcher, 1 ad. long-billed dowitcher, 3 juv. red-necked phalaropes, 40 Caspian terns, 10 common terns, 5 Forster's terns,
warbling vireos, indigo buntings, and Baltimore oriole. There were good birds in a couple of the impoundments today, not just the best one. On the way home I saw more high water at the Huron R., and also L. Rockwell and West Branch SP in Portage Co. Craig Holt, Lowellville
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