My email was not working last night, sorry for the late post. I stopped briefly at Conneaut Saturday 9/11. There was a lot of exposed mudflat, but the usual shorebird area was dry. What shorebirds were around were along the bay by the observation platform. There were a ton of gulls around with a lot of birds sitting in the shallows north of the flats and a lot were on the outer breakwalls. Birds of note was a LAUGHING GULL (juv) and a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL (2nd cycle). I'm guessing the laughing gull was the same bird seen about a week ago. There were a couple eagles and a peregrine occasionally scattering the gulls. Shorebirds seen were semipalmated plover, greater and lesser yellowlegs, semipalmated sandpiper, least sandpiper, and sanderling. Ducks seen were mallard, green-winged teal, and northern shoveler. 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]