While visiting a jobsite in Ashtabula County this morning, I was able to stop at the sandspit from 8:30 to 9:00. It was raining and extremely windy. Great birding weather! I saw 32 species in my short visit. Good shorebird numbers. Here are some of the highlights: Green-winged Teal 6 Semipalmated Plover 25+ Black-bellied Plover 7+ Greater Yellowlegs 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 12+ Spotted Sandpiper 3 Short-billed Dowitcher 5 Stilt Sandpiper 3 Sanderling 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper 15+ Least Sandpiper 60+ Baird's Sandpiper 1 Pectoral Sandpiper 2 Bonaparte's Gull 11 Caspian Tern 18+ Turkey Vulture 75+ ( On and over the beach ) Bald Eagle 1 (An immature constantly landing and flushing everything) Bob Lane _________________________________________________________________ Get thousands of games on your PC, your mobile phone, and the web with Windows®. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/108588800/direct/01/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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]