Subject: Lind Coulee shorebirds September 3, 2003
Date: Sep 3 20:05:10 2003
From: Eugene Hunn - enhunn at comcast.net


I've been in Montana and stopped at Lind Coulee today on my way home, at the
M st. bridge. Lots of good stuff: 15 Great Egrets, 1 GBH, 25 Killdeer, 2
Semipalmated Plovers, 10 Lesser and 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 1 Solitary
Sandpiper, 4 Spotted Sandpipers, 200 Western Sandpipers, 8 Semipalmated
Sandpipers, 20 Least Sandpipers (a couple in basic plumage), 25 Baird's
Sandpipers, 5 Pectoral Sandpipers, 1 Stilt Sandpiper, 3 Wilson's Snipes, 25
Northern Phalaropes, 1 Wilson's Phalarope; Forster's and Caspian Terns,
Ring-billed Gulls, etc. At the pond west of Othello of SR26, two American
Avocets and 4 Long-billed Dowitchers.

Gene Hunn.