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
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