Finding only one but one makes a life bird!!!(insert life bird dance here)

Thx for ur posting Mark!
Charlene Nelson
Grant county

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> On May 22, 2014, at 4:19 PM, MARK OTNES <[log in to unmask]> 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
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