[Mich-listers] White Pelicans Pointe Mouillee

[Karl Overman]

This morning I biked around Pointe Mouillee, Monroe County.  Eight  
White Pelicans were feeding with a mass of Great Egrets and Great  
Blue Herons in the Vermet Unit.  The Vermet Unit has drastically  
reduced water levels with flats everywhere.  Unfortunately shorebirds  
were scarce.  For the day I only had 50 Lesser Yelowlegs, 40 Short- 
billed Dowitchers and 5 Least Sandpipers.  I did not even get Stilt  
Sandpiper today with I would have thought would have been a gimme  
with this much habitat on this date.  I saw the dowitchers in flight  
over the Vermet Unit and saw them feeding in cell 3.  Seven Black  
Terns were in the Lead Unit including one that acted as if it was on  
a nest.

Cheers,

Karl Overman
Farmington Hills, Michigan