It's great to know of good current shorebird spots, but it would be interesting to know something about the species distribution/abundance within that 6000 bird sample.
Tom Soulen St. Paul At 12:52 PM 5/10/04 -0500, Chu, Philip wrote: >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 >_______________________________________________ >mnbird mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.mnbird.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mnbird > >

