Yesterday in Big Stone Co., Peder Svingen and I conducted a shorebird = survey and found almost 6000 shorebirds.
Yesterday's best shorebird sites included the following. (1) Otrey Twp., CR 21 0.7 mile south of where it meets CR 10; look at = the pothole on the west side of the road, not the lake on the east. (2) Otrey Twp., on the south side of the intersection of CR 10 and the = north arm of CR 21. (3) Otrey Twp., Karl Slough (located on the southwest side of CR 62 = where CR 62 approaches the Big Stone Twp. line). (4) Prior Twp., CR 61 about 0.4 mile south of CR 4. Check the potholes = on both sides of the road. (5) West Toqua Lake along MN 28. Phil Chu Department of Biology St. John's University Collegeville, MN 56321
