Yesterday I took advantage of the rainy weather by going up to Conneaut harbor.  Very few people came out on the spit during my time there, which was 11:20 AM - 4:15 PM.  There was a nice little bit of shorebird movement in the afternoon.  As Bob Lane noted on a recent post, L. Erie is way down and there is a large amount of shorebird habitat available.  Birds seen included: black-crowned night-heron, osprey, semipalmated plovers, 2 willets, 3 ruddy turnstones, sanderlings, semipalmated sandpiper, least sandpipers, pectoral sandpipers, a molting juv. Wilson's phalarope, Bonaparte's gull, lesser black-backed gull (near-adult plumage), Caspian terns, and belted kingfisher.  By using my car as a blind, I was able to get ridiculously close views of most of these birds.  Close enough to listen to them.  The willets were very talkative, and I was able to listen to the other shorebirds too.  There were hundreds of ring-billed/herring gulls around adding
 their noise, and of course the Caspian terns called that wild call of theirs.  It was a good afternoon at Conneaut!  Craig Holt, Lowellville

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