Scott Meyer and I visited Yellow Medicine county this morning and found shorebird (and waterfowl) migration to be in full swing. At Miller Lake, 13 miles west of Clarkfield on MN 67, the following shorebird species were present: American Avocet (2) Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs (15) Hudsonian Godwit (5) Marbled Godwit (1) Dunlin (4) Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher (6) Wilson's Phalarope (3) A Peregrine Falcon flew over while we were present and stirred up the shorebirds, it didn't stick around but continued flying north. Good numbers of Wilson's Phalaropes were present at the Clarkfield sewage ponds (36) and Canby sewage ponds (81). Canby held a flock of 40 Lesser Yellowlegs as well.
Doug Kieser Scott Meyer Hennepin County ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
