Late yesterday afternoon Dave Bartkey and I refound the four White-faced Ibises previously reported at Black Rush Lake WMA in Lyon County. Earlier, at Miller Lake in Yellow Medicine County we found 8 Hudsonian Godwits, 3 Marbled Godwits, an American Avocet, 2 Willets, Dunlins, and other shorebirds.
Salt Lake had fewer birds than I've see there in the past, but we did find one Eared Grebe, a few Horned Grebes, small numbers of most other varieties of waterfowl. Along the shore we found Pectoral, Least, Baird's, and Semipalmated Sandpipers, Wilson's Phalaropes, Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs, a Willet, and an American Pipit. A lone Greater White-fronted Goose is hanging around yet, and while we were there a flock of about 25 Snow Geese flew over. Elsewhere we came across Lark Sparrows, Franklin's and Bonaparte's Gulls, and Broad-winged Hawks, and we found thriving populations of Yellow-headed Blackbirds in just about every marsh we visited. In spite of the wind, it was a great day of birding! Gerry Hoekstra ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
