With the windy conditions I thought Conneaut harbor might be worth checking
today, so I headed out with Kathy Englander.  The gate was open and you are
now able to drive out to the sand spit again.  There were a lot of gulls in
the harbor.  Only gull of note was an immature LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL.
There were four species of terns including 5 BLACK TERNS.



Not a lot of waterfowl moving but there were some good ones.  I had 4 BRANT
fly through the harbor heading west.  They never stopped.  Other waterfowl
of note was a flyby SURF SCOTER and a LONG-TAILED DUCK.  The only other
ducks were mallard, lesser scaup and red-breasted merganser.



There were a few shorebirds moving also.  Of note were 4 AMERICAN AVOCETS
that also flew through the harbor without stopping.  Other shorebirds were 2
black-bellied plover, 1 golden plover, 1 spotted sandpiper, 30+ dunlin, and
1 semipalmated sandpiper.



The winds got pretty bad and a lot of sand was blowing around.  By the time
I left, my dashboard had a coating of sand.



John Pogacnik

4765 Lockwood Road

Perry, OH 44081




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