This afternoon, about 2:00 PM, I found a Marbled Godwit and a Hudsonian Godwit in a flooded field in Itasca County. According to Bob Janssen's county lists on the MOU web site neither of these birds has been reported in Itasca County before. There were also two Short-billed Dowitchers in this same area.
This field is located on CR 10, between 4 and 5 miles south of Hwy 169 (they intersect in the town of Bovey). The field is just south of the Trout Lake Community Center. This year the field is heavily flooded and is proving to be a good shorebird spot (shorebird spots are hard to find in Itasca County). This evening Shawn Conrad and I went back there and this time there were also 2 Semi-palmated Plovers, at least 4 Least Sandpipers, and one Solitary Sandpiper. As a bonus, we saw a flock of 9 White Pelicans fly over. Earl Orf www.earlorfphotos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080515/8b25b60d/attachment.html