Cattle Eg. Monroe Co.; Buff-br Sandp., Wayne Co.

[LaRue Wells]

This morning (Aug. 21) I parked at the Mouillee Creek lot at Pte.  
Mouillee and walked out to the north end of Cell 3, hoping that on  
the way out I would see the 2 Cattle Egrets reported yesterday on the  
middle dike and then see the Buff-breasted Sandpiper reported  
yesterday in Cell 3.  The Cattle Egrets were not there, and when I  
reached Cell 3 at 10:45 the Buff-breasted Sandpiper wasn't around  
either, although Jerry Jourdan had seen it very early this morning.   
On the way back to the car, at about 11:30, I found the Cattle  
Egrets, probably about where they were seen yesterday.  Today they  
were on the middle dike between Long Pond and the Lead Unit, about  
100 yards west of the end of the dike that separates Long Pond and  
the Vermet Unit.  After a few minutes they flew out over the Lead  
Unit and lit in plain view on a muskrat house, where they soon  
hunkered down and looked as if they intended to stay awhile.

On the way home I stopped at the Waltz Sod Farm where, at about 1:15  
pm , I saw a Buff-breasted Sandpiper.  It was moving around a lot.  I  
first saw it in the field just to the west of the railroad track and  
north of Ash Street.  A little later it moved well to the west to the  
field just east of the little creek and north of Ash Street.  Ed  
Smith saw it an hour or so later, and it was still moving around a lot.

Tex Wells