I just heard back from Heidi Pinkerton, the photographer who found the Purple Sandpiper on March 17, and she said the location was at the "beach" at Split Rock Lighthouse State Park in Lake Co. I assume this site is accessed from one of the trails leading from the visitors center. With permission, I have posted her image of the bird on the MOU's Recently Seen page (http://moumn.org/cgi-bin/recent.pl). Kim R Eckert [log in to unmask] http://www.mbwbirds.com ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html