I stopped at Conneaut this afternoon
 
The spit area looks good for shorebirds in May with large pools of water where they cleared the vegetation
 
There was a large flock of cormorants perched on the breakwall here that I did count
also here was a flock of Chimney Swifts 
 
Here are some of the birds that I had
 
 
Location: Conneaut Harbor
Observation date: 4/29/11
Number of species: 16

Blue-winged Teal 5
Northern Shoveler 1
Greater Scaup 3
Red-breasted Merganser 85
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Great Blue Heron 7
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 6
American Coot 13
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Bonaparte's Gull 22
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 4
Caspian Tern 104
Forster's Tern 1
Belted Kingfisher 2


 
Mark Vass
Beaver Co.
 
 

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