I spent the day in Ashtabula Co. yesterday.  First bird of note was an Am. kestrel along SR 7 in Richmond Twp.  From there I went to Denmark Twp. and was fortunate to see the pair of upland sandpipers on poles along SR 193 just south of Stollaker Rd.  Also in that area were wild turkey, 6 bobolinks, and e. meadowlark.  Next I went to Conneaut harbor.  The gates to the spit are open, then the sand road is well-packed all the way to the spit.  There's a nice-sized pool at the east, it attracted the only migrant shorebirds: semipalmated plover, least sandpiper, and semipalmated sandpiper.  Other Conneaut birds were double-crested cormorants, a couple bald eagles, 6 Bonaparte's Gulls, 3 great black-backed gulls, belted kingfisher, 5 warbling vireos, 75+ bank swallows (active nests seen at big sandpile in industrial part of harbor), tree swallow, barn swallows, gray catbird, yellow warblers, yellow-rumped warbler, and Baltimore oriole.  It was early afternoon by then, I headed to Indian Trails Park at E. 24th St. in Ashtabula.  The pond there was too high for shorebirds, but I did hear warbling vireo and yellow warblers at the park.  Last place I visited was Walnut Beach; found there were a pair of spotted sandpipers, 2 Caspian terns, 5 warbling vireos, gray catbird, c. yellowthroat, yellow warblers, song sparrows, and Baltimore orioles.  Craig Holt, Lowellville

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