[mou-net] Red Knots at the North Ottawa Impoundment

2014-05-22 Thread MARK OTNES
At about 1:00 PM today I observed 6 Red Knots in a large (250+) mixed shorebird flock at the North Ottawa Impoundment just north of Charlesville in Grant County. The shorebirds were on along the east-west section road that cuts through the impoundment. Something scared up the flock (a saw a

Re: [mou-net] Red Knots at the North Ottawa Impoundment

2014-05-22 Thread Jim Charlene Nelson
Finding only one but one makes a life bird!!!(insert life bird dance here) Thx for ur posting Mark! Charlene Nelson Grant county Sent from my iPhone On May 22, 2014, at 4:19 PM, MARK OTNES markot...@cableone.net wrote: At about 1:00 PM today I observed 6 Red Knots in a large (250+) mixed

Re: [mou-net] Red Knots at the North Ottawa Impoundment

2014-05-22 Thread Jim Charlene Nelson
OOPS! this is too easy to post from field. It raised its head and it was a Godwit!! so no life bird tonight. Did find 5 Hudsonian Godwits. ID by sound and white rump with two different flyovers and flashed their rumps after they landed. Charlene Nelson On May 22, 2014, at 7:40 PM, Jim