[mou] Western Sandpiper, Brown County

9/30/2007 Ruth Hiland and I took a quick trip down to the Sleepy Eye Sewage Ponds this afternoon. We arrived a little before 4:00 pm. For the next 1/2 hour we watched a number of Least, Baird's and Pectoral Sandpipers and a Semipalmated Sandpiper on the mud flats near the entrance gate to the

[mou] Western Sandpiper, Brown County

The juvenile Western Sandpiper was still present at the Sleepy Eye sewage ponds this morning. Take Hwy. 4 south of Sleepy Eye about 1 1/2 - 2 miles. Once you pass an auto salvage yard on your right the entrance is about a quarter mile south on the left. The bird is being seen on a gravel spit