[mou] Browerville Fallout

[Alt, Mark]

Sounds like tons of birds seen!

Mark Alt
Manager of Project Management
Supply Chain Transformation Office
Best Buy Co., Inc.
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From: mou-net-admin@cbs.umn.edu [mailto:mou-net-admin@cbs.umn.edu] On
Behalf Of Benjamin Fritchman
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:10 AM
To: mou-net@cbs.umn.edu
Subject: [mou] Browerville Fallout

Yesterday I got out of track practice early, so I headed to the
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Sewage Ponds. A storm had gone through very early that morning. I got
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and the warblers made me stop half way up the road to the ponds. The=20
warblers were thick, covering the gravel road in front of me. There was
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group of 20 Yellow Warblers in with the Yellow-rumps on the road.
Then I noticed the Kingbirds, they lined the wires, covered the rocks
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sat on the side of the road, and all over the building, it was just
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movement as thousands of swallows filled the air with the warblers, then
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Tanagers showed up, lining the pine tree branches. I finally made my way
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to the ponds where I was totally surprised. If anyone knows anything
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these ponds, they aren't too great for shorebirds, maybe a spotted or 2
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a few Yellowlegs, you can also basically see only one pond.
But when I got to the edge and looked down I witnessed a mass of black.
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shorebirds were thick! They lined the near shore, 5 deep from the shore
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the way down the shore. I counted close to 700 indidviduals, all on this
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side of the pond.
There were 13 species, involving
11 Long-billed Dowitchers
73 Wilson's Phalaropes
3 White-rumped Sandpipers
55 Pectoral Sandpipers
12 Dunlins
and numerous others.

Anyway it was a lot of fun

Ben Fritchman

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