4:30-5:30pm, 5/16/10 Lake Byllesby Lake levels are rising and so are shorebird numbers. I counted between 750-800 total shorebirds late afternoon, with Least Sandpipers comprising approximately 600 individuals. New birds appeared to be arriving while I was there. Others species included:
Hudsonian Godwit - 3 (one large molting female and 2 alternate males) Ruddy Turnstone - 1 Dunlin - 55 Short-billed Dowitcher - 60 White-rumped Sandpiper - 6 Semipalmated Sandpiper - 20 Pectoral Sandpiper - 5 Lesser Yellowlegs Semipalmated Plover - 25 Killdeer - 10 Apparently the Western Sandpiper wetland was devoid of birds this afternoon. Jim Eagan, 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
