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Jim & Charlene Nelson <[log in to unmask]>
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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 <[log in to unmask]> 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 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> 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
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