In addition to the birds Ethan Kistler posted on I stuck around untill the heat waves went away and could finally see some of the many many shorebirds that are at Mosquito Creek W.A. on Mahoan-Blackstub road. The RED KNOT was still around and stands out from the others by his thicker bill, Gray ghost look, Horizontal stance and thick stocky appearance. I was happy about this bird, a life-bird for me and I got to find the little guy. Bill Whan, Bill Heck, Paul Gardner, Joe Hammond and the rest of the Avid Birder group got to share in the moment buy seeing the bird also, as did several other birders who were there like Betsy Smith, Don and Judy Coch, - it was nice meeting you both and glad you got in on my lifebird party! Ok, well it wasn't really a party but there sure were plenty of people there, probably record numbers for Mosquito all at once. Like I said I hung around and also found the following: Baird's Sandpiper - finally picked one out, a Juvenile looking quite buffy, with nice pale fringes, rather obvious long primary projection at close range (the birds keep shifting around thanks the the raptors) Stilt Sandpiper - 1 Juvenile Short-billed Dowitchers - at least 8 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 1 with the Short-billeds he stood out as being redder, longer billed, darker wing/body contrast, more upright when standing semi-relaxed, and being noticable rounder and bigger. \ Solitary Sandpiper - 10+ Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Semi-palmated Sandpipers Least Sandpipers Pectoral Sandpipers Semi-palm Plovers Killdeer Red Knot - 1 as mentioned above Marbled Godwit - 3 WILSON'S SNIPE - 1 Kinda hanging around the godwits and Dowitchers Spotted sandpipers - raptors 5 Bald Eagles (adults and juv.) and 1 Red-shouldered Hawk. Conneaut: RUDDY TURNSTONE - ethan forgot this guy, still in nice colors Red-necked Phalarope - 1 White- rumped Sandpiper - 1 Semi-palmated Sandpipers Least Sandpipers Sanderling - 6+ running around in various stages of molt plus a couple juveniles Spotted Sandpipers Semi-palmated Plovers - plus Coopers Hawk and a bunch of Caspian Terns, Bank Swallows, Barn Swallows, and PUMA I'm hittin Conneaut again in the morning, as if my eyes weren't cross-eyed enough from looking thru a scope all day! Good Birding (good getting 1 lifer, and 2 more year-birds too (3 total yearbirds - not that I exactly know what my year list is) haha - Ben Warner ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]