Willet at Muskegon Wastewater

[Edwin Smith]

Yesterday, Aug 24, Pat and Jerry Calvert and I spotted a Willet in the  
(empty) easternmost cell at Muskegon Wastewater. The solitary bird was  
in the northwest corner of the cell.  In the next cell to the west two  
molting Sanderlings and a number of Baird's Sandpipers were feeding on  
surface material.  The previously reported Eared Grebe and 14 Red- 
necked Phalaropes were easily seen in the east pond from the north end  
of the middle causeway.  Stilt sandpipers and Short-billed Dowitchers  
were still present in the east cell but we dipped on the Golden and  
Black-bellied Plovers noted in the past.

Ed Smith