Hi, I enjoyed birding Nobles county for most of the day but the best birding turned out to be when I checked the Sleepy Eye WTP's on my way home. I estimated that there were 90-100 shorebirds there. It was difficult to get exact counts due to it being so cold and windy plus the birds were scattered over a large area of two ponds (and they were moving around). The highlight was finding one American Golden Plover. There were at least two to three dozen Pectoral Sandpipers, along with good numbers of Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs. There was also at least a dozen Baird's Sandpipers. I certainly may have missed a species. It was fun being able to sort through shorebirds again.
Brian Smith Sleepy Eye ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
