Went to cabin on Friday- Called in to MOU Hotline Friday but it didn't
get posted: Saw a White Faced Ibis at the sewage ponds at Osakis, the pond
closest to I-94 as you go from town towards the ponds. The bird was still there
today at 2:30 PM as I returned home.
There were 31 Cattle Egrets in the Cow pasture with the cattle off the SE
end of Pelican Lake in Grant County. Also had 6 others on a flyover on
Douglas 19 on the west edge of Douglas County. No Snowys or Little Blues seen
on a
scan of the area.
Lots of shorebirds still in Big Stone County. Salt Lake had virtually
none, Spotted, Least and Lesser Yellowlegs. Saw many Wilson's Phalaropes
everywhere and Red-Necked Phalaropes at two locations. The lower sewage pond at
Albany
is in drawdown again and had a smattering of good birds including (at 25
feet) a Baird's, 3 Dunlin, Two Sanderling, a Pectoral, Many Least and very
many
L Yellowlegs and a few Greater. Also many Spotted and an Am. Pipit.
John Ellis, St. Paul
