Hi, My sister and I checked out a new shorebird spot I found near New Germany. It's a new housing development ( Trophy Lakes IV) that has no houses built yet. A shallow artificial lake/pond was put in, rather u -shaped, with sandy mud flats and good shorebird habitat. Not a lot of birds today except skazillions of killdeer, but we did see one buff- breasted SP, one sanderling, and 3 semi-palmated plovers, plus some black terns, horned larks and pipits. Hopefully as shorebird migration increases, it will get more birdy
Directions- Hwy 7 west towards New Germany, south on 33 and west on 62 St. The development is on the north side of the street. Warning- speed boats have been practicing for some kind of competition on this small lake, but they haven't been too bothersome. The usual shorebird spots in New Germany have poor habitat- no water, too many weeds. Robin LaFortune Delano, MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
