I, Bob Lane, am a field engineer for a general contractor. Since august 8th I have been assigned, luckily at the right time, to a bridge project in Conneaut, 2 miles from the shorebird site. I stay at the Lakefront Motel overlooking Conneaut harbor three nights a week, giving me the opportunity for several hours of birding 3 evenings and 3 mornings each week. The motel is within walking distance of the sandspit and the observation platform lagoon. As anyone who has been there knows, the activity and sightings can change by the minute. In the past 5 weeks I have recorded 23 species of shorebirds and a total of 72 species of birds. Also, I have met birders from Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, Virginia, Texas, and Ontario. Shorebirds from the past week: American Golden-Plover 9/4 & 9/5 1 Semipalmated plover 9/7 flock of 14+ Killdeer 6+ daily thru week Greater Yellowlegs 9/7 3 Lesser Yellowlegs 9/4 6 Red Knot 8/27 thru 8/30 4(allowed close approach), 9/4 1 Sanderling 9/4 thru 9/7 12+ daily, 9/6 Coopers Hawk snatched one off the beach Semipalmated Sandpiper 9/4 thru 9/7 3+ daily Least Sandpiper 9/7 flock of 8+ Baird's Sandpiper 9/4 thru 9/7 1+ daily Pectoral Sandpiper 9/7 1 Buff-Breasted Sandpiper 9/5 1 Short-Billed Dowitcher 9/5 & 9/6 1 very tame (within 3 feet) Previous and other interesting observations: Black-Bellied Plover 8/9 i, 8/22 1, 8/28 1 American Avocet 8/13 3 7PM Willet 8/10 3 , 8/16 12 , 8/22 3 Note: All around 7PM Spotted Sandpiper 8/14 3 Solitary Sandpiper 8/14 1 Marbled Godwit 8/23 1 7AM Ruddy Turnstone 8/20 thru 8/30 4+ daily , 8/21 9+ Dunlin 8/16 1 Standing with single Red Knot Western Sandpiper 8/21 1 Stilt Sandpiper 8/23 1 , 8/27 1 Turkey Vulture 8/15 90+ on beach at daybreak, were not there at dark the night before Bald Eagle 8/21 2 adults, 7 nonadults , all in a line on adjacent jetty wall Common Nighthawk 8/28 & 8/29 2 above beach, these were the only nights Purple Martin 8/20 100+ Bob Lane September 8, 2007 Damascus, Mahoning County, Ohio _________________________________________________________________ More photos; more messages; more whatever. Windows Live Hotmail - NOW with 5GB storage. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_5G_0907 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]