I was birding this morning in Faribault County (west of Albert Lea) and located 19 Red-necked Phalaropes at the Wells sewage ponds. Wells is in the NE part of the county. The sewage ponds are a mile west of town along Hwy 109. The phalaropes were in the southernmost cell of the ponds on the south side of the highway. They were viewable from the gravel road that runs along the eastern boundary of the ponds. There were very few other shorebirds at the ponds (both north and south of 109). There were just a few Lesser Yellowlegs and some Least and Spotted Sandpipers (in addition to all of the Killdeer). I did locate a good assortment of shorebird species at a small wetland south of Walnut Lake - to the west of the road just north of I-90. There were about 80-90 birds present of at least 7 species on the mudflats. Bob Ekblad Olmsted County in Southeast Minnesota ekblad at frontiernet.net http://www.Birding-Minnesota.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080819/dc048bd7/attachment.html
