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Spent several days in Lyon, Yellow Medicine, and Lac Qui Parle Counties with most of the birding time doing volunteer Shorebird surveys for the government. Saw very few shorebirds considering I surveyed two full townships. Saw more shorebirds at the Dawson sewage ponds than both townships combined. Birds at Dawson were: Lesser Yellowlegs 3, Wilson Phalarope 20, Whiterumped sandpiper 2, Dunlin 9, Spotted 2, Least Sandpiper 7 and Killdeer 3. I did find 6 Snowgeese and a Ross's Goose at a WMA six miles south and two miles east of Dawson. There were a pair of Eared grebes there also and about 30 Black Terns. Most of the rest of my birding was at Cottonwood, Lyon Co. in my mothers yard. Highlights were a Gnatcatcher, both Graycheeked and Swainsons Thrush, Golden-winged, Parula and Blackpoll Warblers, and four flyby Willets. While there were not large waves of birds, movement was constant and had over 70 species in the yard for those days. Paul Egeland Bloomington --part1_1d7.91555d7.2bf0490e_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><FONT FACE=3Darial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3D2 FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF" FACE= =3D"Arial" LANG=3D"0">Spent several days in Lyon, Yellow Medicine, and Lac Q= ui Parle Counties with most of the birding time doing volunteer Shorebird su= rveys for the government.<BR> Saw very few shorebirds considering I surveyed two full townships. Saw more=20= shorebirds at the Dawson sewage ponds than both townships combined. Birds at= Dawson were: Lesser Yellowlegs 3, Wilson Phalarope 20, Whiterum= ped sandpiper 2, Dunlin 9, Spotted 2, Least Sandpiper 7 an= d Killdeer 3. I did find 6 Snowgeese and a Ross's Goose at a WMA = six miles south and two miles east of Dawson. There were a pair of Eared gr= ebes there also and about 30 Black Terns.<BR> Most of the rest of my birding was at Cottonwood, Lyon Co. in my mothers yar= d. Highlights were a Gnatcatcher, both Graycheeked and Swainsons Thrush, Gol= den-winged, Parula and Blackpoll Warblers, and four flyby Willets. While the= re were not large waves of birds, movement was constant and had over 70 spec= ies in the yard for those days. <BR> Paul Egeland <BR> Bloomington</FONT></HTML> --part1_1d7.91555d7.2bf0490e_boundary--
