Had a great shorebirding day at Agassiz Valley today. Mainly because all the other spots are drying up. I'm hoping for a lot of rain this weekend but we usually get passed by.
Notes: 19 shorebird species seen Landbirds are under-reported as my surveys currently only focus on waterbirds American Bitterns heard all day at all points (over 20) Soras heard all day at most points The best shorebirding is on the Northeast side, just west of the Ag field Hudsonian Godwit - have been consistent for weeks (40+ seen today) Audubon Center of the Red River Valley (Polk County): Formerly Wetlands, Pines, and Prairie Audubon Sanctuary. South on Marshall 36/Polk 68 from Minn 1 east of Warren Agassiz Valley Impoundment (Polk/Marshall Counties): Immediately north of the Audubon Center of the Red River Valley. NOT to be confused with Agassiz NWR. The impoundment is open to vehicles Species Seen and Heard: Pied-billed Grebe American White Pelican 4 Great Blue Heron 4 American Bittern (Heard Only) Double-crested Cormorant Canada Goose Gadwall Mallard Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Lesser Scaup Greater Scaup Ring-necked Duck Ruddy Duck Red-tailed Hawk (1 eastern and 1 apparent Krider's light morph) Northern Harrier Bald Eagle American Kestrel Mourning Dove Sandhill Crane American Coot Sora (Heard Only) Virginia Rail 1 (Heard Only) Black-bellied Plover 4 Killdeer Semipalmated Plover 8+ Lesser Yellowlegs lots Greater Yellowlegs 2 Spotted Sandpiper ~12 Stilt Sandpiper 4 Western Willet 3 Marbled Godwit lots Hudsonian Godwit 40+ Dunlin ~12 Pectoral Sandpiper Majority 150+ White-rumped Sandpiper 75+ Baird's Sandpiper 1+ Short-billed Dowitcher ~12 Semipalmated Sandpiper 5+ Least Sandpiper 50+ Wilson's Phalarope ~15 Wilson's Snipe 1 Ring-billed Gull Forester's Tern Black Tern Eastern Kingbird American Crow Common Raven Blue Jay Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Tree Swallow Marsh Wren Sedge Wren Horned Lark American Robin European Starling Yellow Warbler Vesper Sparrow Savanna Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Yellow-headed Blackbird Common Grackle Bobolink Western Meadowlark American Goldfinch Pine Siskin Additionals at the Audubon Center: Ruby-throated Hummingbird FOS Traills Spp Flycatcher (sadly not calling) Least Flycatcher Eastern Pheobe FOS Great-creasted Flycatcher FOS Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Northern Flicker Black-capped Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch House Wren Cedar Waxwing Swainson's Thrush Gray Catbird Magnolia Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler American Redstart Rose-breasted Grosbeak Chipping Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Baltimore Oriole Bill Blackburn Minnesota Audubon Warren, 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
