There were 3 Am. avocets and 2 willets at Conneaut from afternoon on today 7/17. Also semipalm plovers, greater yellowlegs, sanderling, semi and least sandpipers, pectoral sandpiper, Bonaparte's gulls, Caspian and Forster's terns, green herons, juv. black-crowned night-heron, belted kingfishers, purple martins, 250 bank swallows, marsh wren. A few common shorebirds were found on fine habitat at Orwell marsh, LaDue Res., and East Branch Res. in Geauga Co. L. Rockwell is starting to develop flats also. I didn't check West Branch SP. It seems like there will be a lot of good shorebird habitat across Ohio this fall due to lack of rainfall. There were also 4 Caspian terns at LaDue. Later, Craig --------------------------------- Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]