The Bellevue ponds are continuing to shrink.  The southeast one's edges are beyond good scope distance, the larger NE also.  NW has plenty of water close to the road but not much activity.  SW had most of the shorebirds (except that killdeer were everywhere) but at its far edge.  The peregrine and a harrier kept everbody stirred up and almost all finally left.  Highlights:

  200 +/- killdeer
  1 semipalmated plover
  4 American golden-plover
  100 +/- yellowlegs, most if not all lesser
  50 +/- short-bllled dowitchers
  1 (maybe 2) Baird's sandpiper
  20 or so each least and semipalmated sandpipers
  14 pied-billed grebes

  At the Rtes 2/269 interchange section of Medusa, most of the shorebirds were too distant for ID.  The tricolored heron was still there, with 10 or so snowy egrets (mostly juveniles) and a few great egrets and great blue herons.

  The great egrets were all at the main pool of Medusa - I could see over 150 from one vantage point through the phragmites - surely more were there.

  Craig Caldwell
  Westlake


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