My wife and I were surprised to find a Whimbrel at the Jirik Sod Farm today (7-28-10) at about 12:30. The bird stood out among the other shorebirds with its larger size and long decurved bill, as well as it overall drab plumage and crown stripes.
During the short time we were there we were unable to refind the buff-breasted sandpiper, although another birder there had seen one before we arrived. Some of the good habitat is quite far from the road and even with a scope many of the birds there were too distant to identify. Karl Roe ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
