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The shorebirds continue to be hanging around in big numbers. The best
area to find them is on CR 15 west of town. To get there, go through
town to 4th street northwest and go straight west -- this turns into CR
15. Today, there were well over a thousand birds on the sandspits where
the water is fianlly retreating. In the last two days, there have been
16 species of shorebirds found there: SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, KILLDEERS,
SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, SOLITARY SANDPIPERS, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, WILLET,
LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SANDERLING, SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER,
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, STILT
SANDPIPERS, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER and WILSON'S SNIPE. This afternoon,
we also had 12 BLACK-BILLED MAGPIES in the same area as the shorebirds.
BLACK TERNS, SANDHILL CRANES AND GREAT BLUE HERONS continue to be in big
numbers. There are still a few shorebirds north of town along CR 1. To
top off our day, yesterday we had a beautiful Timber Wolf about two
miles north of town, just off of CR 1. Warren Nelson
