[mou] Fw: Big Stone County Snowy & Cattle Egrets, Avocets

[David A. Cahlander]

From: "Doug Kieser" <DKieser@CLYNCH.COM>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 9:49 PM
Subject: Big Stone County Snowy & Cattle Egrets, Avocets


> Jim Otto and I birded in Big Stone & Swift counties today, among the
> highlights:
> 4 Snowy Egrets and 1 Cattle Egret were at the Klages WMA, on Big Stone
> county highway 64 1/2 mile west of it's intersection with county 23.
> 4 American Avocets and 1 American Bittern in the wetland 1/2 mile east
> of Big Stone county highway 7 on the road 1 mile north of county highway
> 6 (about 7 miles west of Clinton).
> 1 Cattle Egret was just west of the Benson Airport on Swift county
> highway 20.
> We searched unsuccessfully for the White-Faced Ibis in the Danvers WMA
> west of Benson.
> Shorebirds were sparse in both Big Stone and Swift counties.  The
> largest shorebird concentrations of the trip were on our way home, in
> the flooded fields along Minnesota highway 7 between Hutchinson and
> Lester Prairie in Mcleod County.  Many of these pools held dozens of
> Pectoral Sandpipers & both Yellowlegs.  There were 8 Willets in the pond
> south of the intersection of Dairy Ave. and Hwy 7.
> 
> Doug Kieser
> Minneapolis  
> 
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