I went looking for shorebirds again today and found 6 species at the Dennison Sewage Ponds in Rice County. Thanks to Dave Bartkey's article in the latest MN Birding for pointing this location out to me. I did not encounter the caretaker. At Oronoco Park in Olmsted County I found 9 species including Semipalmated Plover and Stilt Sandpiper. There is a very nice exposed area in the lake that is attracting many shorebirds. Viewing from the park is good with a scope. The park is on Co. Rd. 12 a short distance east of US 52 in Oronoco. There was also a Snow Goose there that didn't look like it had been anywhere near the Arctic recently. Finally, in Dodge County I found a Short-billed Dowager with a small group of Greater Yellowlegs at one of the sand pits in the far NW corner of the county along Co. Rd. G just east of Co. Rd. 1. This is private property that is posted so viewing is not the best. Bob Williams, Bloomington -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080716/03cab24b/attachment.html
