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Emil Bacik and I visited the following wildlife areas today (8/2):
Pipe Creek WA - excellent habitat - continues to improve as water level drops:
Ruddy Turnstone 1 flyby
RED KNOT 1 near breeding plumage; paused for about five seconds with a pair of dows and then headed out - probably not the most suitable habitat
Stilt Sandpiper 3
Short-billed Dowitcher 20
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER 1 Emil observed this bird flying away
Common Snipe 2
Willow Point WA - inexplicably, very few shorebirds present; water levels in the pool to the south continue to drop, where most of today's birds were found:
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER 1 ad
Short-billed Dowitcher 9 number way down
only a handful of yellowlegs
Pickerel Creek WA - Shorebirding is once again looking up at this location. The impoundment that I reported on a couple weeks ago, north of the woodlot, continues to cater to quite a few Short-billed Dowitchers, but the water has risen just a bit since then, leaving little muddy shoreline. The good news is that the impoundments north of the observation tower have come down quite a bit and are harboring quite a few yellowlegs and other longer-legged waders at the moment. With any luck, this area will be primo piper habitat very soon.
Greater Yellowlegs 10
Lesser Yellowlegs 85
Solitary Sandpiper 5
Pectoral Sandpiper 10
Stilt Sandpiper 9
Short-billed Dowitcher 76
Common Snipe 1
WILSON'S PHALAROPE 2 perhaps these birds bred here?
Orchard Oriole 8
Good birding -
Gabe Leidy
Cleveland
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