I was at Conneaut for a few hours this morning. There was a nice movement of birds moving along the lake. I ended up with 10 species of shorebirds. The only birds of note were western and Baird's sandpipers. Most of the birds were moving through and only stopped briefly. A killdeer, three lesser yellowlegs, and a semipalmated sandpiper attempted to stick around but walkers, fishermen and drivers did their best to scare them off. There were a few hundred Bonaparte's gulls, but I found nothing different. There also were 7 common mergansers, 1 osprey, and 2 peregrine falcons. There were also numerous common and Forster's terns as we as single Caspian and Black terns. Also of interest was their mowing of the marsh or should I say Phragmites adjacent to the flat. I arrived as they were making their last few sweeps. Having brush-hogged in the past, I know the last few sweeps sometimes drives birds out. I was not disappointed as I saw 6 soras, a least bittern, and a couple sparrows fly out.. You hate them getting spooked, but its good to try and get rid of the Phragmites. What surprised me was the amount of water he was mowing in. Here's a list of the shorebirds: Black-bellied plover 2 Semipalmated plover 1 Killdeer 1 Greater yellowlegs 9 Lesser yellowlegs 7 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER 1 WESTERN SANDPIPER 1 Semipalmated sandpiper 1 Least sandpiper 3 Sanderling 6 John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]