A total of 17 shorebird species were seen here today by the Minn Birding Weekends group. Among these were American Avocet, Upland Sandpiper, Marbled Godwit, Sanderling, and Buff-breasted Sandpiper. Most of these were along the flooded east-west road that goes E from the Traverse Co line, and along the N side of the impoundment 1/2 mile E of the county line. There were virtually no other shorebirds or mudflats that we found elsewhere in western Grant and Traverse counties, although there were 1 Red necked and 3 Wilson's phalaropes at the Graceville sewage ponds in Big Stone Co, bringing our day's shorebird total to 19 species.
Kim R Eckert, Duluth http://www.mbwbirds.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
