Glossy Ibises at Pte. Mouillee, Monroe Co.

[Allen Chartier]

Birders,

This morning I found a total of 6 Glossy Ibises at Pte. Mouillee. Three were 
in the locale well-described by Will Weber yesterday. I walked east from the 
Mouillee Creek entrance, and three ibises were about 200 yards east of the 
pumphouse, which is in the extreme northwest corner of the Lead Unit. They 
eventually flew off to the north, to what I figured was the north end of the 
Long Pond Unit. A fourth individual flew across the "grassy dike" out of the 
Lead Unit and disappeared to the north in the Vermet Unit. Two others were 
found later in the southwest corner of the Vermet Unit, near the sand "spit" 
where Bryn Martin had a Laughing Gull yesterday (only Bonaparte's Gulls and 
Forster's Terns this morning). I have posted three of my ibis photos at the 
BIRDERS photo sharing site at:

http://www.umich.edu/~bbowman/birds/se_mich/photos.html

(I've also posted photos of Indigo Bunting and Red-winged Blackbird there.)

I saw very few shorebirds today, and almost all were in flight. The intense 
dredging activity on the dike between Cell 3 and Cell 4 of the Banana had 
apparently spooked all birds out of that area. A Peregrine Falcon was 
zooming around over Cell 5; nice in itself, but certainly a deterrent to 
shorebirds as well.

Allen Chartier
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Inkster, MI  48141
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