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Date: | Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:44:43 -0500 |
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I took a drive into Ashtabula Harbor hoping to see what was around before
the cold weather hits and freezes things up. Conneaut Harbor had a few
ducks and gulls with some variety. The interesting birds here were a pair
of dunlin. The mudflat is now gated off so I was scoping birds on the flats
from across the harbor. I could see a couple shorebirds running around in
the gull flock. From The distance I could not make them out, so I walked
out to the flat. I had higher hopes, but they ended up being a pair of
dunlin, still not bad for January. There was also a few great black-backs
and one adult lesser black-backed gull. Waterfowl present were 3
pied-billed grebes, Canada geese, mallard, redhead, greater and lesser
scaup, bufflehead, and all three species of mergansers. There was a flock
of 45 snow buntings on the beach west of the flats.
Ashtabula Harbor had almost no waterfowl. All that I saw were Canada geese
and a few mallards. There were also a pair of cormorants. I had a few
great black-backed gulls, but that was it for gull variety. There were a
lot of ring-billed and a few herring gulls. I saw no Bonaparte's anywhere
today.
Just west of Ashtabula I had a black vulture moving east along the
lakeshore. It was being harassed by a couple crows.
Geneva State Park had no waterfowl and only great black-backed, herring, and
ring-billed gulls. Of note there was a belted kingfisher and a red-headed
woodpecker east of the marina.
I was surprised at the lack of waterfowl everywhere I checked. Conneaut had
a few and I saw a couple small red-breasted merganser flocks here and there.
John Pogacnik
4765 Lockwood Road
Perry, OH 44081
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