While at a jobsite in Ashtabula today; I was able to visit Conneaut harbor and the sandspit area during lunch; from 11:30 till noon. The water level was unbelievably high! Very little land exposed! 31 species of birds were recorded while I was there. Here are some of the highlights: Caspian Tern 110+ Wow!!! Great Black-backed Gull 30+ Bufflehead 250+ Red-breasted Merganser 850+ Northern Pintail 1 pair Bonaparte's Gull 130+ Double-crested Cormorant 100+ Horned Grebe 60+ American Coot 40+ Pied-billed Grebe 1 Bald Eagle 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 pair Bob Lane Damascus, Mahoning County _________________________________________________________________ Get in touch in an instant. Get Windows Live Messenger now. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_getintouch_042008 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]