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Today I birded Yellow Medicine County along with Rick Hoyme, John = Hockema, Josh Watson, and Carol Schumacher. We focused on shorebirds. = The best spot was Lanners Lake, two miles north and two miles east of = the town of St. Leo. Here there were hundreds of shorebirds. Other = birders have been reporting that this area has been great for = shorebirds, and today was no exception. Today we found 13 species = there, including: -Semipalmated Plover -both Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs -Sanderling -Baird's Sandpiper -Stilt Sandpiper -BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER (a few in the dry areas away from the water) -Wilson's Phalarope -Red-necked Phalarope Another shorebird spot was at Spellman Lake, which is a little over a = mile north of CR 2 on CR 8. This is east of Hwy. 59. Here there were = more ducks than shorebirds, but it appears that this area will get = better in weeks to come. Finally, we found one Buff-breasted Sandpiper mixed in with a flock of = Killdeer in a grassy field on the east side of Hwy. 274 about 3 miles = south of Granite Falls. -Bob Dunlap, Carver County ------=_NextPart_000_003F_01C487CD.71CC0CE0 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 6.00.2800.1226" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Today I birded Yellow Medicine County = along with=20 Rick Hoyme, John Hockema, Josh Watson, and Carol Schumacher. We = focused on=20 shorebirds. The best spot was Lanners Lake, two miles north and = two miles=20 east of the town of St. Leo. Here there were hundreds=20 of shorebirds. Other birders have been reporting that this area has = been=20 great for shorebirds, and today was no exception. Today we found = 13=20 species there, including:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Semipalmated Plover</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-both Greater and Lesser = Yellowlegs</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Sanderling</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Baird's Sandpiper</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Stilt Sandpiper</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER (a few in the = dry areas=20 away from the water)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Wilson's Phalarope</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Red-necked Phalarope</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Another shorebird spot was at Spellman = Lake, which=20 is a little over a mile north of CR 2 on CR 8. This is east of = Hwy.=20 59. Here there were more ducks than shorebirds, but it appears = that this=20 area will get better in weeks to come.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Finally, we found one Buff-breasted = Sandpiper mixed=20 in with a flock of Killdeer in a grassy field on the east side of Hwy. = 274 about=20 3 miles south of Granite Falls.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Bob Dunlap, Carver County</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_003F_01C487CD.71CC0CE0--