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Today there are extensive mudflats in the New Germany/Crane Creek area = of NW Carver/NE McLeod Counties. Unfortunately the spot along Hwy. 7, = 1/4 mile west of the Carver County line is rapidly drying, and shorebird = numbers have seriously declined at this spot. The best spot right now = is the set of 3 ponds along Cnty. Rd. 30 between Yancy and Yale Ave. in = Carver County. The largest pond, which is on the south side of Cnty. = Rd. 30, had the most shorebirds: around 400 individuals. This spot = should be productive for a few weeks yet. Present were: -Greater Yellowlegs -Lesser Yellowlegs -Solitary Sandpiper -Least Sandpiper -Semipalmated Sandpiper -Baird's Sandpiper -Pectoral Sandpiper -Stilt Sandpiper -Killdeer At the two ponds on the north side of Cnty. Rd. 30, there were around = 200 Great Egrets wading in the shallow water. There weren't nearly as = many shorebirds at these two ponds, but there might be in another week. = Today there was another interesting bird at these ponds: an adult = Prothonotary Warbler. This is the first time I have seen one in this = area, but there is some suitable nesting habitat for them. -Bob Dunlap, Carver County ------=_NextPart_000_0020_01C36327.17C4BE70 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2726.2500" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Today there are extensive mudflats in = the New=20 Germany/Crane Creek area of NW Carver/NE McLeod Counties. = Unfortunately=20 the spot along Hwy. 7, 1/4 mile west of the Carver County line is = rapidly=20 drying, and shorebird numbers have seriously declined at this = spot. The=20 best spot right now is the set of 3 ponds along Cnty. Rd. 30 between = Yancy and=20 Yale Ave. in Carver County. The largest pond, which is on = the south=20 side of Cnty. Rd. 30, had the most shorebirds: around 400=20 individuals. This spot should be productive for a few weeks=20 yet. Present were:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Greater Yellowlegs</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Lesser Yellowlegs</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Solitary Sandpiper</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Least Sandpiper</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Semipalmated Sandpiper</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Baird's Sandpiper</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Pectoral Sandpiper</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Stilt Sandpiper</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Killdeer</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>At the two ponds on the north side of = Cnty. Rd. 30,=20 there were around 200 Great Egrets wading in the shallow water. = There=20 weren't nearly as many shorebirds at these two ponds, but there might be = in=20 another week. Today there was another interesting bird at these = ponds: an=20 adult Prothonotary Warbler. This is the first time I have seen one = in this=20 area, but there is some suitable nesting habitat for them.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Bob Dunlap, Carver County</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0020_01C36327.17C4BE70--