[mou] Lake Byllesby

[ABEERMAN at smumn.edu]

Decided to take a trip up to Lake Byllesby yesterday and was rewarded with the addition of eight birds to my life list!  Thanks to Laura Coble and Jim Mattsson for assisting with identification and pointing out things we would not have seen otherwise.  

Seen at the lake (between 12:30 and 5:00 pm):

White-fronted goose
Semipalmated Plover
Black-bellied plover
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Dunlin
Red-necked Phalarope
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Franklin's Gull
American Pipit

Andrew Beerman,
Winona