Hey Everybirdy,

  Just thought I'd fill in the details from my morning at  MINWR.
  Hit Blackpoint at sunrise, which wasn't very fruitful  aside from a few
Blue-winged Teal and Northern Shovelers.
  Certainly one of the suprises of the day were a pair of  Coyotes just south
of Patillo Creek Road.  Then I headed out to Shiloh  Marsh.  North of the
Weather Tower Road is where most of the action is,  today a good portion of it
was north of Shiloh 3 as well.  I  found a nice mixed flock and made myself
comfortable along the roadside and  scanned.
100+ Western Sandpipers
230+ Least Sandpipers
50+ Dunlin
13 Ruddy Turnstones
5 Willets
2 White-rumped Sandpipers (looked to be molting  juveniles)
25+ Semipalmated Sandpipers
3 Short-billed Dowitchers
  Something flushed them and they became more scattered so  off I went to
Biolab Road.
  The gem of the day being the Red-necked Phalarope, but  there was still a
fairly impressive crowd there as well.
40+ Lesser Yellowlegs
13 Greater Yellowlegs
6 Red Knots
1 Semipalmated Plover
2 Killdeer
8Willets
3 Pectoral sandpipers
100 Least Sandpipers
50Western Sandpipers
10+ Semipalmated Sandpipers
8 Ruddy Turnstones
1 (?) Short-billed Dowitcher
2 Black-bellied Plovers
  some of the numbers are an accumulated estimate  from along the lagoon as
there were several scattered small  groups.
  For anyone wishing to see a few images of the Red-necked  Phalarope as well
as a couple of shorebirds (Western, Semi,  White-rumped) from today, please
stop in at:
_www.pbase.com/boidpikchas/new_stuff_
(http://www.pbase.com/boidpikchas/new_stuff)

See you out there!

Thomas J. Dunkerton
Titusville,  Florida
_www.pbase.com/boidpikchas_ (http://www.pbase.com/boidpikchas)