[mou] Melo Township Impoundment Shorebird Report

[Shelley Steva]

Hello everyone
  Here is the shorebird and other bird report at the 
Melo Township Impoundment in Polk Co.
The shorebirds first:
Semipalmated plovers- 5
Killdeer 18
Greater Yellowlegs- 22
Lesser Yellowlegs- 44
Solitary Sandpiper- 1
Spotted Sandpiper-2
Marbled Godwit-1
Semipalmated Sandpiper-6
Least Sandpiper- 21
Stilt SAndpiper- 11
Here was a surprise! Out on the mud looking small, and
buff-breasted and having a scaly back- a buff breasted
sandpiper! After I watched the bird for several
minutes, I looked away and later tried to locate the
bird again. I was unsuccessful so I don't know if it
left the area or not.

Pectoral Sandpiper- 15
Short-billed Dowitcher- 14
Common Snipe- 1
Wilson's Phalarope 1

15 Species- 164 individuals

Other species there also included:
Hooded merganser
wood ducks
other ducks
pied billed grebes
DB Cormorants
Bald Eagles-3
White pelicans

All in all a succussful evening:
Shelley Steva 
Pennington Co.



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