[mou] Western Grebes, Brown County

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I observed 3 Western Grebes at the Sleepy Eye Sewage Lagoons Saturday, August 2, mid afternoon.  They were in the pond to the right as you enter the ponds.  There were also a good number of shorebirds - mostly peeps and Lssr. Yellowlegs.



I also checked out other shorebird spots:




Belle Plain Sewage in Scott County - good habitat and about 80 individual shorebirds - Semipalmated Plovers, peeps, yellowlegs, Pectoral SPs




Nicollet Cty., east side  Hwy 4, just past the MN River bridge (reported earlier by Craig Mandel) - a larger number of shorebirds, including Stilt SP and Semipalmated Plovers




Fairfax Sewage Lagoons, Renville Cty. - a good mix of shore birds.  The best bird was a Great Horned Owl, sitting on the fence surrounding the ponds (I was there at dusk).




Linda Sparling
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