Checked out 140th St. & Lake Bylessby. Both look promising for shorebirds. At Lake Bylessby I found 13 species of shorebirds. Counted 65-100 Semi-palmated Plovers. Number 41 was a Piping Plover with a complete necklace as described from down in Winona. Unlike a few previous PP's, this one was hanging with the Semi-palmated Plovers, and lacked the attitude of the others. It was downright docile. Other shorebirds there: Yellowlegs - many hundreds, primarily lessers Dunlins - 2 Willets - 3 Solitary Sandpipers - several, but they were all on the near shore Least Sandpipers Semi-Palmated Sandpipers Pectoral Sandpipers Bairds Sandpipers Wilsons Phalarope
140th Street Marsh had only a few Yellowlegs and a Spotted Sandpiper. Other notable birds today: Chimney Swifts - downtown Stillwater Clay-colored Sparrow - several singing at 140th Common and Caspian Terns (20) at Lake Bylessby Scaup (Greater?) Palm warbler Blackpoll Warbler White-throated Sparrow White-Crowned Sparrow Steve Weston on Quigley Lake in Eagan swest...@comcast.net