I wasn't sure where the flooded fields referred to Pastor Al were, so I searched on Cty 15 going west out of Aitkin and Cty. 1 going north out of Aitkin. There are flooded fields in both directions. I had luck with one Hudsonian Godwit sharing a small wet, grassy patch north of Aitkin on County one, just before the curve to the right about a mile north of town. A few White-rumped and Semipalmated Sandpipers where in a field on the east side of Cty 1, .5 mile north of Cty 55. The 1st time I passed by on Cty 15 there were no shorebirds visible. On a return pass, a massively flooded field on the south side of the road had shorebirds on the distant shore. The only one I could safely identify was a Dunlin. The rest looked like sandpipers.
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