Hello everyone Here is the shorebird and other bird report at the Melo Township Impoundment in Polk Co. The shorebirds first: Semipalmated plovers- 5 Killdeer 18 Greater Yellowlegs- 22 Lesser Yellowlegs- 44 Solitary Sandpiper- 1 Spotted Sandpiper-2 Marbled Godwit-1 Semipalmated Sandpiper-6 Least Sandpiper- 21 Stilt SAndpiper- 11 Here was a surprise! Out on the mud looking small, and buff-breasted and having a scaly back- a buff breasted sandpiper! After I watched the bird for several minutes, I looked away and later tried to locate the bird again. I was unsuccessful so I don't know if it left the area or not.
Pectoral Sandpiper- 15 Short-billed Dowitcher- 14 Common Snipe- 1 Wilson's Phalarope 1 15 Species- 164 individuals Other species there also included: Hooded merganser wood ducks other ducks pied billed grebes DB Cormorants Bald Eagles-3 White pelicans All in all a succussful evening: Shelley Steva Pennington Co. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com