Birding was excellent at Conneaut harbor this morning. I was there from 7:50 AM until about noon. Highlights were: osprey, bald eagles, semipalmated plovers, the continuing piping plover, 2 Am. avocets, willet, ruddy turnstone, sanderling, least sandpipers, pectoral sandpiper, semipalmated sandpipers, short-billed dowitchers, 30 Bonaparte's gulls, great black-backed gull, Caspian tern, common terns, Forster's tern, belted kingfisher, and a merlin. Craig Holt, Lowellville ______________________________________________________________________ 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]