Hi all, I was at Conneaut Harbor from 6:30 AM to 11:30 AM. What a difference a day makes. Northwest winds and negligible disturbance may have helped too (duh). While nothing mindbending, certainly an improvement over yesterday. Semipalmated Plover-1 Killdeer-13 AMERICAN AVOCET-2 on the ground only briefly around 8:50 Lesser Yellowlegs-2 Spotted Sandpiper-4 Sanderling-2 Semipalmated Sandpiper-2 Least Sandpiper-4 Pectoral Sandpiper-1 Short-billed Dowitcher-1 With the exception of several fresh juvenile Killdeer, all birds were adults, many rather worn. I was snoozing in my car with the window cracked, when I heard Least Sandpiper flight calls, so I got up. The pair of avocets landed on a small sandbar with some Canada Geese, and called repeatedly. They flew off after only a couple of minutes. One of them was still wearing fairly bright alternate plumage. Also Bald Eagle-5 Caspian Tern-4, including one juvenile Bank Swallow-750+ Cheers, Ben Coulter Erie, PA --------------------------------- Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]