While birding Big Stone NWR today, I flushed two White-faced Ibis from the ditch along the duck-banding road. They didn't fly too far before touching down in a thicker patch of reeds where I lost sight of them. Although the high winds made birding tricky (I saw an American Bittern fly backwards for about 30 ft), I also found 12 species of shorebirds, the highlights being Black-bellied Plover, Ruddy Turnstone, Baird's Sandpiper, and White-rumped Sandpiper. Good birding, Josh Christian _________________________________________________________________ Make every e-mail and IM count. Join the i?m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ MakeCount -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080517/9ca56f67/attachment.html
