[mou] RE: [mnbird] Piping Plovers: Anoka County

[Jim Ryan]

I went to lunch at 11:30 and one Piping plover, the Killdeer and both 
Black-bellieds were still present. Upon returning at 12:30, I could only see 
one lone Piping plover (away from the waters edge, about 30 yards out in the 
sand and dirt) and a Killdeer. Very exciting finds this morning! Piping 
Plover is a Lifer for me!

If you make the trip (Hwy 65 & 117th Ave. torn up corner with parked 
bulldozer), look hard at all the puddles and out in the open dirt areas to 
find them before leaving. They are about 1/2 the size of a Killdeer, and one 
stripe less too!

Jim

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of character." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

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>From: "Steve Weston" <sweston2@comcast.net>
>Reply-To: "Steve Weston" <sweston2@comcast.net>
>To: "mnbird" <mnbird@lists.mnbird.net>,"Mou-net" <mou-net@cbs.umn.edu>
>Subject: [mnbird] Piping Plovers: Anoka County
>Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 09:04:14 -0500
>
>I just received a call from Jim Ryan reporting 2 Piping Plovers at a pond 
>at a construction site at 117th Street and Hwy 65
>in Blaine.  Also there: 2 Black-bellied Plovers and of course a Killdeer to 
>harass the Piping Plovers.  I wonder if we have
>been missing the Piping Plovers coming through by not checking enough 
>degraded puddles.  They sure don't seam to be choosing
>high quality habitats.
>
>Also he reports that were a good mix of shorebirds at 89th Street east of 
>Hwy 65 in the soccur complex.
>
>Steve Weston on Quigley Lake in Eagan
>sweston2@comcast.net
>
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