Tuesday afternoon, 23 August, Ann Mitchell & I went to Montezuma.
At the Visitor Center the variety & numbers down, but there were 2 Dowitcher Sp, both Yellowlegs, both Teal, and Northern Shoveler.
The Solitary Sandpiper spot at the start of the Wildlife Drive had 2 of same. Larue's is disked but dry. The shorebird spot is too vegetated to see well, but had a handful of Lesser Yellowlegs and a Least Sandpiper.
May's had 41 Great Egrets (only single digits at other locations), 4 Pectoral Sandpipers, 1 Semipalmated Plover, at least 15 Lesser Yellowlegs, & 3 Common Gallinules.
Puddler's was best with 2 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, several Pectoral Sandpipers, 8 or more Dowitchers (including at least 2 Short-billed juveniles), several Lesser Yellowlegs, and lots of Semipalmated Plovers, Semipalmated Sandpipers, and Least Sandpipers, 1 Spotted Sandpiper, and a brief flyby view of a Black-crowned Night-Heron. Also there were 2 gray Sandhill Cranes, very picturesque in the water, and at Knox-Marsellus 4 more brown Sandhill Cranes hiding in vegetation.
--Dave Nutter
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