I stopped at Lake Byllesby late this afternoon to see if any of the shorebirds were still around. They were, though in smaller numbers. In the twenty minutes I was there, I found one Black-bellied Plover, 28 Dunlins, 3 Pectoral Sandpipers, and 16 Killdeer. In addition, there were two American Pipits and a Bonaparte's Gull (a second gull was out too far to ID).The only waterfowl I saw this time were six Northern Shovelers and a dozen or so Mallards. I did not see the Hudsonian Godwit that was there last weekend.
Unfortunately, since I was short on time, I resisted the impulse to stop at GW Industrial Park on the way home, and thus did not see the Snow Buntings that Laura Coble reported. Gerry Hoekstra Northfield ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
