From: "Doug Kieser" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 9:49 PM Subject: Big Stone County Snowy & Cattle Egrets, Avocets
> Jim Otto and I birded in Big Stone & Swift counties today, among the > highlights: > 4 Snowy Egrets and 1 Cattle Egret were at the Klages WMA, on Big Stone > county highway 64 1/2 mile west of it's intersection with county 23. > 4 American Avocets and 1 American Bittern in the wetland 1/2 mile east > of Big Stone county highway 7 on the road 1 mile north of county highway > 6 (about 7 miles west of Clinton). > 1 Cattle Egret was just west of the Benson Airport on Swift county > highway 20. > We searched unsuccessfully for the White-Faced Ibis in the Danvers WMA > west of Benson. > Shorebirds were sparse in both Big Stone and Swift counties. The > largest shorebird concentrations of the trip were on our way home, in > the flooded fields along Minnesota highway 7 between Hutchinson and > Lester Prairie in Mcleod County. Many of these pools held dozens of > Pectoral Sandpipers & both Yellowlegs. There were 8 Willets in the pond > south of the intersection of Dairy Ave. and Hwy 7. > > Doug Kieser > Minneapolis > >
