Hi, Doug Johnson and I covered Clay County yesterday for the North American Migration Count and had 94 species on a frigid, windy, drizzly day. Our best birds were Louisiana Waterthrush (still at the Felton Prairie wet woods just northeast of the eastern terminus of Clay County 108) and Northern Mockingbird (sitting on one of a cluster of wooden pilings along the road to the Blazing Star Prairie--the gravel road going south from the point where 34 and 110 meet). Other highlights were a late Snow Goose on a dike of the Crystal Sugar Ponds, a single Red-necked Phalarope among 160 or so Wilsons Phalaropes at the Barnesville Sewage Ponds, and an Osprey hovering above the ponds.
We missed the Felton Prairie Rock Wren, But the weather was so miserable that it may simply have taken shelter where we couldn't see it. Bob OConnor Moorhead
