One other item of note from Conneaut: there are great numbers of Bank
Swallows hanging out on the piles of rock and gravel near the entrance to
the Boat Club (east of the sand spit). Tipped off by a local birder, we
drove over there and immediately saw perhaps two hundred swallows on the
utility wires and on top of the fence. As we scanned the gravel piles, we
realized that flocks of Bank Swallows were on every one, and quickly upped
our estimate to five hundred birds. Further scanning convinced us that even
this number was a serious underestimate; we have no real idea how many
birds are there.

Locals surely see this all the time, but it's quite a spectacle for those
of us from inland parts!

Bill Heck

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Jeff Harvey <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> I wanted to follow up on the previous post from Conneaut. Today, the
> Conneuat sandspit was basically underwater. The drive is closed for a good
> reason. Water is as high as I have ever seen it. The areas for shorebirds
> are small but available. Best viewing is from the observation platform.
> The nice thing is that you have to really want to go out there by walking
> about a half a mile. So no vehicles and only a few people and dogs. The
> birds are not being disturbed.
> We did see the 3 Avocets, Short-billed Dowitchers, Semipalm plovers,
> Sanderlings, Least Sandpipers and Killdeer that were present. Also, 14
> eagles were seen on the breakwalls and the Common Merg family consisted of
> 23 birds.
> Good Birding,
> Jeff Harvey
> Mahoning County
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society.
> Please consider joining our Society, at
> www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php.
> Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list.
>
>
> You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at:
> listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS
> Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]
>

______________________________________________________________________

Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society.
Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php.
Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list.


You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at:
listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS
Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]