FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] RPT: Little Stint update for Sunday, August 20th

["Palmer-Ball, Brainard \(EPPC OOS KNPC\)" <Brainard.Palmer-Ball@xxxxxx>]

Heavy thunderstorms mid-day Sat and early Sun AM raised the water level in the 
retention basin remarkably by early this morning, but enough habitat was still 
present to keep most all the shorebirds at the site. The Little Stint continued 
to forage mostly on mid-lake bars. It seemed a bit more flighty today, but that 
may have been simply due to the reduced cover from the mosaic of bars that had 
become exposed by our recent dry weather. Two Cooper's Hawks were the offending 
disrupters today. The stint was catching up on its sleep when the last of us 
left about 2:00 p.m. EDT this afternoon.
 
Turnover continued to be generally lacking again today with the only addition a 
nice adult Black-bellied Plover that dropped in from the gray skies and rested 
for an hour or so before one of the Cooper's Hawk sorties. Pecoral Sandpiper 
numbers were over 100 again today, with the juv. S-b Dowitcher and at least 5 
juv. Stilt Sandpipers continuing as well.
 
Tonight will be a prime one for departures, but hopefully the stint will find 
the accommodations enough to its liking that it will continue to grace us with 
its presence.
 
bpb, Frankfort