The ice went out on the Sleepy Eye sewage ponds just this week and some early migrant shorebirds were found there this morning. Most were on the far eastern pond where a bunch of vegetation has washed up along the western edge of that pond:
2 American Golden Plover 4 Greater Yellowlegs 6 Lesser Yellowlegs 14 (probably more) Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Baird's Sandpiper 1 Least Sandpiper Killdeer - many 3 American Pipits Brian Smith Sleepy Eye ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
