I did a short drive-thru visit to the Conneaut sandspit this afternoon at about 3PM. All sightings were birds resting on the sand. Here are the highlights: Dunlin 1 (In beautiful breeding plumage,got close-up photos) Semipalmated Plover 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 6 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Caspian Tern 32+ Forster's Tern 8 Bonaparte's Gull 12+ Great Black-backed Gull 40+ Bob Lane Damascus,Mahoning County _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch when you're away with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_052008 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]