Diane & I made a trip up to Morrison County today to look for the Buff-breasted Sandpipers that had been reported there a couple of days ago. We searched at the spot (100th St just south of CR21 - SW of Bowlus) but were not able to find them. There were quite a few Killdeer spread out all over the place and I was fortunate to also spot one Black-bellied Plover (don't think that had been reported there earlier).
I also made a trip out west (Wed-Fri) that included the impoundment at the western edge of Grant County. I was pleasantly surprised to find a couple of Buff-breasted Sandpipers there (SW corner), a Black-bellied Plover (on the west end of the middle road that goes by "the tree") and a couple of Golden Plovers (on the northern road not too far from the NE corner of the impoundment). I believe these were last reported about Aug 8 - so they (or their friends) stayed quite a while. There were many other shorebirds there including a couple of dowitchers and lots & lots of Stilt Sandpipers. Warblers were present in very small quantites. I found Canada & Wilson's Warblers in 4 or 5 counties and a few other species that were just singles for the trip. I also found some late Red-necked Phalaropes in sewage ponds in Grant and also at Edgerton in Pipestone County Bob Ekblad Olmsted County in SE Minnesota http://www.Birding-Minnesota.com ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
