My thanks to Tanya Beyer and her post from yesterday about all the shorebirds near Sky Harbor Airport. I was down at Park Point shortly after 6 am, and I named my birding excursion "Invasion of the Arctic Shore Birds". Although I did not see or hear a Piping Plover, from the vantage point of the taped ribbon, I had a huge number of shorebirds work their way towards me as they ate breakfast. I saw (thanks to all the folks on Facebook who helped me with some ID's): Dunlins, a Red Knot, Ruddy Turnstones, Sanderlings, and Semipalmated Sandpipers!
I drove back down around 11:00 am, and I could still see lots of shorebirds from the same vantage point, but much farther down the shore (about 200 yards). In the past I've often seen some of these birds at the mouth of the Lester River, but my three checks today came up empty on that score. Photos on my web site at http://www.365DaysOfBirds.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
