Today I drove over to Dennison and saw one Long-billed Dowitcher. No Willets or Pectoral Sandpiper. But did see a Semipalmated Sandpiper.
dan On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Dave Bartkey <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- Dan or Erika Tallman Northfield, Minnesota http://sites.google.com/site/tallmanorum http://dantallmansbirdblog.blogspot.com http://picasaweb.google.com/danerika [email protected] ".... the best shod travel with wet feet" "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes ...."--Thoreau ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
