I just received a nice photo of a Purple Sandpiper taken last Saturday, March 17, in Lake County. I have asked the observer's permission to post the location on MOU-net and the digital image on the MOU's Recently Seen page. (I'd rather not do either right now since she may want to post these herself.) This surprising sighting is the first ever spring record Minnesota (there are 6 previous fall/early winter records), and it raises the question if it's possible this bird actually overwintered here but was not detected until last weekend? -Kim ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html