In my dreams! They were red-necked phalaropes. John Schladweiler New Ulm > Yesterday I found about 200 red phalaropes on the sewage ponds just > southeast of the town of Heron Lake. The only other shorebirds present > were a 20 or so killdeer. There were 40-50 Franklin's gulls and a > smattering of mallards and wood ducks.