Greetings all - 
The long-staying pair of Piping Plovers finally moved on yesterday evening, as they were not present today (starting at 6 am) at Lorain impoundment. A single WILLET was a highlight as well as many Least Sandpipers, Semipalmated Sandpipers (5), Semipalmated Plovers (4), and Short-billed Dowitchers (6 including one of the more heavily barred/spotted "Atlantic" race), plus Lesser Yellowlegs and Spotted Sandpipers and Killdeer en masse. Additional sightings from Lorain (which is very, very "birdy") included all regularly occurring species of swallows, American Coot, Gadwall, Marsh Wren, Ruddy Duck (including four adult males and a single female), Green Heron, a slew of Great Blues, and in the harbor, upwards of 500 Herring Gulls, at least five Great Black-backed Gulls, and 35 Caspian Terns, which is a great count. 
The flooded "four-corners" of Riddle Road (also County Road 292, which is also T-80) in Bellevue is currently offering FANTASTIC habitat, with a single juvenile WILSON'S PHALAROPE leading the highlights today, plus a major movement of yellowlegs (200+ Lesser Yellowlegs), nearly a hundred Least Sandpipers, a half dozen Pectoral Sandpipers, Solitary and Spotted Sandpipers, and an assortment of others including Green-winged Teal, a single female Northern Pintail and 100+ tricky-looking eclipse-plumaged Mallards. 
best of birding-Jen

Jen Brumfield 
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Cleveland, Ohio
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