Hi everyone, Kathy Thom and I stopped at the Dennison Sewage Ponds today (about 11:30 am), on our way to check out Lake Byllesby. At the ponds we found 18 Willets, 11 Long-billed Dowitchers and 2 Wilson's Phalaropes among the Spotted and Pectoral Sandpipers and Lesser Yellowlegs. This was abnormally busy for these ponds (& to which I'm very thankful!)
Other new birds in the county were Rose-breasted Grosbeak and Clay-colored Sparrow. At Byllesby, I had time to see many Willets and a single Marbled Godwit before a Peregrine Falcon came barreling in and scared everything off. I don't know if the shorebirds returned elsewhere on the lake or what, but the wind was so strong that we just left. Good birding! Dave Bartkey Faribault,MN [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
