[Mich-listers] Marbled Godwit @ Pt. Mouillee SGA, Monroe, Co. - 06 Aug 2010

[Jerry Jourdan]

Birders,

A MARBLED GODWIT was found in Cell 3 of the Banana Unit between 6:30 - 8:00
am this morning.  I will post some images this evening.

Good news is that Cell 3 mudflats are reappearing!  The mudflat at the north
end of Cell 3 is re-exposed and hosting the following:

Dozens of Caspian Terns, Bonaparte's Gulls, and Ring-billed Gulls
~100 Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers (I could not find any Baird's)
~10 Semipalmated Plovers
~ 25 Short-billed Dowitchers
~10 Stilt Sandpipers (in varying levels of molt)
~30 Lesser Yellowlegs
~2 Black-bellied Plovers (fly-over)

A mud spit is also showing along the SE shoreline of Cell 3 and was hosting
several dozen gulls and terns and a few more shorebirds, but I did not check
them out.

Only a few Lesser Yellowlegs and Least Sandpipers were found along the east
shore of the Long Pond Unit

Other notables:

1 Wilson's Snipe in Walpatich Unit (fly-by)
1 female Northern Harrier along the North Causeway hunting the sunflower
field

Jerry
http://jerryjourdan.blogspot.com
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