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: > > 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 > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html