Hi everyone,
Played hooky today to do some birding. I was craving a good warbler wave but
the only warbs I encountered were at Goose Lake County Park. I had 4:
Blackburnian, Canada, Wilson's and Nashville.
My best site of the day was the Janesville Sewage Ponds which had 9 species
of shorebird:
Stilt Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Killdeer
and 27 Wilson's Phalaropes!
Loafing on the berms with the Ring-billed and Franklin's Gulls were at least 12
Caspian Terns.
In addition to the 9 shorebirds, I found a single Wilson's Snipe in a flooded
field just north of the town of Waseca.
Good birding!
Dave Bartkey
Faribault, MN
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