I had an excellent day in the field today.  Spent the morning at Conneaut harbor, highlights were: pied-billed grebe, 30 double-crested cormorants, 13 turkey vultures, 18 Am. coots, 3 greater yellowlegs, 15 dunlin, 40 Bonaparte's gulls, ruby-crowned kinglet, yellow-rumped warbler, song sparrows, swamp sparrow, white-throated sparrows, and white-crowned sparrow.  In the afternoon I visited Mosquito L.; viewing from the Hoagland-Blackstub Rd. pulloff, the end of Mahan-Denman Rd., the Rte. 88 causeway, and the State Park at the far south end of the lake.  The Hoagland-Blackstub pulloff had an impressive number and variety of birds!  Highlights at Mosquito were: wood ducks, 350 gadwalls, 75 Am. wigeon, n. shovelers, 50 green-winged teal, hooded mergansers, 125 ruddy ducks, pied-billed grebes, great egret, the continuing glossy ibis, bald eagle, 8 sandhill cranes, 215 Am. coots, 3 greater yellowlegs, 3 lesser yellowlegs, dunlin, 50 Bonaparte's gulls, 600 ring-billed gulls, and 275 red-winged blackbirds.  Craig Holt, Lowellville

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