Fog and rain this morning kept migrants mostly grounded. But as the fog lifted there were some obvious new arrivals. Working in Lyme and Sherman Townships of NW Huron County I noticed my first tree swallows of the year pushing forward into the light north winds. Numbers increased throughout the day. A single great egret stood next to a 1/4-acre pond and seemed out of place. And American pipits in good numbers were rising and falling as they fed here and there. But the most impressive migrants seen were possibly 1,000 pectoral sandpipers wheeling northward over the wet farmlands. In an hour I watched 8 different flocks of up to 200 birds flying low in typical shorebird flocks. A couple of these circled and landed briefly in some sheet water ponds just out of view. 

Dan Kramer 
Bolivar


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