Highlights from today -

  Medusa (pond to the northeast of the Rtes 2/269 interchang) - Jen Brumfield's tricolored and little blue herons were both present about noon today  The tricolored was close enough to ID, but not fully appreciate, with binoculars.  Still a fair number of snowy and great egrets, a single black-bellied plover, some too-distant yellowlegs.

  Willow Point (the ponds northeast of the office) - ~50 least, 20 semipalmated, 25 stilt, and 2 pectoral sandpipers; 50 or so lesser yellowlegs and a few greaters; 20 or so each killdeer and semipalmated plovers; and about 35 short-billed dowitchers.

  Ottawa - a common moorhen on the impoundment to the right of the entrance road.  Not much as far as the observation platform; didn't go to the estuary.  The onshore wind would probably have meant deep water there.

  Metzger - the onshore wind kept most everything away  - just a couple of Caspian terns over the water and a spotted sandpiper on the tiny lakeside sand beach.

  Craig Caldwell
  Westlake


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