We visited "The Conneaut Sandspit'" on Lake Erie in Ashtabula County, this evening from 6PM to dark, 7:58PM. The temperature was 62 degrees with some wind, very pleasant. Except for a couple of drive thrus, it was all ours, quiet and peaceful by Conneaut standards! We recorded 25 species of birds. Noteworthy birds were a single Buff-breasted Sandpiper, a single Sanderling, 2 Black-bellied Plovers, 6 Semipalmated Plovers, 8 Least Sandpipers, 16 Killdeer, 13 Caspian Terns, a single adult Lesser Black-backed Gull, 5 American Coots, 3 Green-winged Teal, and hundreds of Ring-billed and Herring Gulls. While we were leaving "The Spit", 3 Black-crowned Night-Herons crossed in front of us headed to the breakwall. This has been a banner year for Buff-brested Sandpiper, we have seen them at four different locations. An added bonus to our drive up, was a single Common Raven, soaring above SR11 near Mile Marker 60, in northeastern Trumbull County, a short distance from neighboring Pennsylvania.
 
Bob and Denise Lane / 40 years of birding together

                                          
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