I was at Conneaut Harbor on Friday. there was a nice variety of shorebirds there with a small number dropping in and out while I was there. The best two birds, red knot and buff-breasted sandpiper did not hang around long. The red-knot was with five sanderlings. It flew in and left within a minute. the buff-breasted stayed even shorter. I doubt that it landed for five seconds before heading west. There were also least bittern, green heron, black-crowned night heron, great blue heron, great egret, gadwall, American black duck, blue and green-winged teal, osprey, bald eagle, Bonaparte's ring-billed, herring, and great black-backed gulls, and Caspian and Forster's terns. Here are the shorebird totals: Semipalmated plover 16 Black-bellied plover 2 Killdeer 1 Spotted sandpiper 1 Greater yellowlegs 27 Lesser yellowlegs 16 Ruddy turnstone 1 RED KNOT 1 Sanderling 9 Semipalmated sandpiper 14 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER 1 Least sandpiper 6 Pectoral sandpiper 1 Stilt sandpiper 4 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER 1 Short-billed dowitcher 5 Common snipe 1 John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 (440) 259-2751 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]