[mou] CORRECTION: Re:Piping Plovers in Anoka Cty

[Jim Ryan]

MN/MOU Birders,

Can you tell how red I am??? Beet. Now I shall try to salvage my reputation. 
This ain't easy so here goes:

I was informed by John Hockema that he and Brother Chris along with Chris 
Benson visited my Anoka Cty find today only to learn I saw SEMIPALMATED 
along with Black bellied, not PIPING plovers. I misidentified some of the 
plovers as PIPING when they were actually SEMIPALMATED. They correctly ID'ed 
them.

I apologize for any false excitment,travel, distress etc. that I may have 
caused anyone. I obviously do not know my plovers without a field guide and 
(guess what I DIDN'T have with me this morning) tried to remember from the 
recent MOU picture the look of the Piping, not remembering the Semipalmated 
was a fairly close match. In my excitement (I saw a Swainson's Thrush in my 
backyard this morning - pretty good for S. Mpls) I assumed, and we all know 
what that does.

Lesson learned: if you bother to carry your binocs in the car, carry your 
@#^&$% field guide too!! (all excused who have their's memorized)

Jim in S. Mpls

PS: by 6pm all the birds at that location were gone.



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