OOPS! this is too easy to post from field. It raised its head and it was a Godwit!! so no life bird tonight. Did find 5 Hudsonian Godwits. ID by sound and white rump with two different flyovers and flashed their rumps after they landed. Charlene Nelson
On May 22, 2014, at 7:40 PM, Jim & Charlene Nelson <jnel...@runestone.net> wrote: > Finding only one but one makes a life bird!!!(insert life bird dance here) > > Thx for ur posting Mark! > Charlene Nelson > Grant county > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On May 22, 2014, at 4:19 PM, MARK OTNES <markot...@cableone.net> wrote: >> >> At about 1:00 PM today I observed 6 Red Knots in a large (250+) mixed >> shorebird flock at the North Ottawa Impoundment just north of Charlesville >> in Grant County. >> >> The shorebirds were on along the east-west section road that cuts through >> the impoundment. Something scared up the flock (a saw a Peregrine Falcon >> about a half hour later) and they flew around me and landed again in the >> dirt islands next to the section road. The Red Knots didn't stick with the >> flock however and disappeared to the north. I got excellent views of the >> knots and was able to distinguish them from other shorebirds that kind of >> look like them (Dunlins, dowitchers, Sanderlings, Stilt Sandpipers). The >> knots were starting to get their red plumage. >> >> Other shorebirds observed were: >> Dunlin - 150+ >> White-rumped Sandpiper - 50+ >> Semipalmated Sandpiper - 10 >> Least Sandpiper - 15 >> Willet - 1 >> Marbled Godwit - 3 >> Wilson's Phalarope - 18 >> Black-bellied Plover - 8 >> Pectoral Sandpiper - 2 >> >> Mark Otnes >> Fargo ND >> >> ---- >> Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net >> Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html >> > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html