I arrived at Conneaut early this morning and left after 1:00 this afternoon several heavy bands of rain passed over the spit and a water spout was seen on the lake I had 15 species of shorebirds 3 Avocet 1 Willet 6 Short-billed Dowitcher 1 Ruddy Turnstone 1 Greater Yellowlegs 4 Lesser Yellowlegs 4 Sanderling 1 Black-bellied Plover 11 Semi-palmated Plover 7 Killdeer 1 Pectoral Sandpiper 2 Stilt Sandpiper 16 Semi-palmated Sandpiper 2 Least Sandpiper 2 Spotted Sandpiper other birds 2 Least Bittern(had good looks at one bird that was perched out in the open and later saw two birds fly) 1 Sora(seen) 9 Caspian Tern 3 Common Tern 2 Bonaparte`s Gull 1 A. Wigeon 1 Hooded Merganser 1 Great Egret 1 Kestrel Mark Vass Ambridge,Pa. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]