Monroe Co. shorebirds

[Karl Overman]

July 4th. I went  to Pointe Mouillee in mid-morning and ran into Adam  
Byrnes and Brad Murphy.  They put me on to an adult Stilt Sandpiper  
and a few Short-billed Dowitchers, along with a Greater Yellowlegs.   
These birds were on the west side at Mouillee.  I think it is on the  
west side of the Bloody Run unit.  Anyway, if you enter from the  
Mouillee Creek parking lot, you will see a slough to the north well  
before you reach the Long Pond unit.  That is where these shorebirds  
were.   i saw 2 family groups of Hooded Mergansers in that slough.  
There is a dike road  near there but it is very rough if you happen  
to be on a bike like I was. I saw one Glossy Ibis at the north end of  
the Vermet Unit.  Lesser Yellowlegs were widespread in the Vermet Unit.

I checked the Erie Gun Club (Erie Marsh Preserve to birders under the  
age of 50).  On the interior dike system there was a small amount of  
water in the main impoundment.  Saw 3 Least Sandpipers and a Dunlin.

Cheers,

Karl Overman
Farmington Hills, Mi.