Probably due to southerly winds and bull-dozed, dried up areas, it was quiet at Conneaut on Tues.(21st). One each of Am golden, black-bellied and semipalmated plovers, 7 sanderlings, 3 killdeers, 2 Forster's terns, 35 turkey vultures, 1 ad bald eagle, 1 great black-backed and the usual large flocks of ring-billeds and mallards. Another birder examined every gull, but could find nothing unusual.  Almost forgot: 1 Am pipit as we left.  

I kayaked along the shore and up the creek to add only great blues, 2 juv bald eagles and kingfishers.  Two groups of fishers were catching steelhead about a mile up the creek. We were there from 9:30 AM to about 3 PM.  My wife watched the sand flats (and knitted) while I kayaked. The phragmites are coming back already. I hope they spray them.   

Bill Jones
Canfield 




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