Daily reports keep coming in from the DNR Muskie Rearing Ponds on the Wolf Lake Road west of Ely. The ponds would normally be filled with water at this time of year, but this year no muskies were raised by Fisheries and therefore there is just the right amount of water, mudflats and drier areas for shorebirds. In the past few days, there have been:
- 70-90 hooded mergansers - <10 lesser yellowlegs - 1 killdeer - 1 semipalmated plover - 5-10 stilt sandpipers - about 20 Baird's sandpipers - 1 buff-breasted sandpiper - 1-5 least sandpipers - up to 10 semi-palmated sandpipers - 1 solitary sandpiper In addition, a merlin has been chasing the shorebirds around the ponds. This morning there was the additional treat of watching 4 coyotes searching and romping at the west end of the ponds. Bill Tefft ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
