Conneaut harbor was pretty slow yesterday, but a few shorebirds did move through. Caspian tern numbers are increasing. There was a little bit more of the spit exposed with the S/W winds. A worker at the boat launch said L. Erie is still "up 2 feet". Highlights were: green heron, 4 bald eagles, semipalmated plover, spotted sandpipers, 13 lesser yellowlegs, 2 semipalmated sandpipers, 3 least sandpipers, the first juv. ring-billed gulls, 10 Caspian terns, belted kingfisher, willow flycatcher, e. kingbird, warbling vireo, purple martins, 50 bank swallows, and marsh wren. Atlasing in priority blocks near Conneaut and Pierpont produced some good birds in early AM and late afternoon/early evening: wild turkeys, Am. kestrel, ruby-throated hummingbird, YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, e. wood-pewees, Acadian flycatcher, e. phoebes, great crested flycatcher, e. kingbird, warbling vireos, red-eyed vireos, n. rough-winged swallows, many barn swallows (my first
juvs.), Carolina wrens, house wrens, e. bluebirds, a very fresh juv. VEERY, wood thrush, brown thrasher, CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, Am. redstarts, hooded warblers, savannah sparrow, swamp sparrow, scarlet tanager, rose-breasted grosbeak, indigo buntings, e. meadowlark, and Baltimore orioles. Craig Holt, Lowellville
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