Just got a call from Troy Shively, who reports draw-downs and water
levels are good at the Grand Lake St. Marys fish hatchery, and 300-400
shorebirds (half admittedly killdeers) are present: stilt sandpiper,
Wilson's phalarope, black-bellied and Am. golden-plovers, dunlins, both
yellowlegs, spotties, least SP, pectorals. The usual gulls and a number
of duck sp, many in eclipse plumage, are present. Wet fields near the
ponds opposite the entrance look good for rarer sparrows among the
others present in good numbers; this is all state property now, which
can be entered there or from along the road (looks like a driveway) just
north of the house on the SE corner of the hatchery property. Troy said
the lake itself had nothing of interest, but that many Eurasian
collared-doves are present near the big grain elevator in Celina, where
they bred this summer. State College PA has four inches of snow so far
today....
Bill Whan
Columbus

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