[mou] Piping Plover refound & other Dakota Co. birds

[Steve Weston]

Checked out 140th St. & Lake Bylessby.  Both look promising for shorebirds.  At Lake Bylessby I found 13 species of
shorebirds.  Counted 65-100 Semi-palmated Plovers.  Number 41 was a Piping Plover with a complete necklace as described from
down in Winona.  Unlike a few previous PP's, this one was hanging with the Semi-palmated Plovers, and lacked the attitude of
the others.  It was downright docile.  Other shorebirds there:
Yellowlegs - many hundreds, primarily lessers
Dunlins - 2
Willets - 3
Solitary Sandpipers - several, but they were all on the near shore
Least Sandpipers
Semi-Palmated Sandpipers
Pectoral Sandpipers
Bairds Sandpipers
Wilsons Phalarope

140th Street Marsh had only a few Yellowlegs and a Spotted Sandpiper.

Other notable birds today:
Chimney Swifts - downtown Stillwater
Clay-colored Sparrow - several singing at 140th
Common and Caspian Terns (20) at Lake Bylessby
Scaup (Greater?)
Palm warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
White-throated Sparrow
White-Crowned Sparrow

Steve Weston on Quigley Lake in Eagan
sweston2@comcast.net