Hi all, I arrived at the sandspit at Conneaut today around 9:30. I found the Franklin's Gull within about a minute, and only later learned that it had been present for only a few minutes before I got there. Talk about good timing! It was present for about another 20 minutes, and then after being harassed by a Ring-billed Gull, it picked up and flew across the harbor and was not seen again up to the time I left at noon. Shortly after the Franklin's departed, the Black-headed Gull was refound and remained visible for most of a hour. I guess I don't get to complain about being unlucky the next few times I miss a good bird... I was able to get pictures of both rare gulls which can be seen at http://home.earthlink.net/~pomarine/index.html. Other birds present while I was there were: American Golden-Plover (1 juv), Black-bellied Plover (1), Semipalmated Plover (3), American Avocet (2), White-rumped Sandpiper (1), Sanderling (6), Caspian Tern (2). Bob Lane and others can probably fill in the gaps, as I'm sure I did not see everything that was there since I was preoccupied with the rare gulls. What a weekend on Lake Erie! Geoff Malosh Pittsburgh Geoff Malosh | Editor, Pennsylvania Birds 450 Amherst Avenue | Moon Township, PA 15108-2654 | 412.735.3128 [log in to unmask] | http://home.earthlink.net/~pomarine/index.html ========================================================================== Pennsylvania Birds is published by the Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology Preview the latest issue: http://www.pabirds.org/pabirds/pb_sample.html Subscription information: http://www.pabirds.org/PSOJoin.htm ______________________________________________________________________ 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]