Ottawa auto tour was disappointing - essentially no shorebird habitat.  Same for 
Metzger.  Ottawa did have several dickcissels along the first straightaway, at 
least two of whom are audible from the corner of Krause and Stange Rds.  At 
least three more dickcissels were singing from the south side of Bodi Rd (east 
of Lemon).

Some mud was exposed in Turtle Creek at the Lemon - Duff Washa Rd. 
intersection.  Solitary and least sandpipers, lesser yellowlegs, at least 40 
killdeer.

Pickerel Creek:  Though some of the birds which Gabe spotted yesterday have left 
or moved, the pond on Pearson Rd. across from the orchid field still had at 
least 200 short-billed dowitchers and many lesser yellowlegs.  Couldn't find any 
stilt sandpipers there or at the northeast corner of the wildlife area.  (Not 
sure we were at the same pond as Gabe - the downloadable map doesn't identify 
the ponds.)

Pipe Creek, Unit B, still had the adult male Wilson's phalarope, dowitchers, 
yellowlegs, and least sandpipers.  There may have been other peeps but a 
peregrine flushed everybody before we could examine everthing.  They landed in 
the heavily-vegetated Unit C.

Craig Caldwell (with Henry Fortlage and, at Pickerel, Chris Pierce)
Westlake


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