I birded for a while early afternoon. A large amount of shore birds were initially present in the first three ponds until a Peregrine Falcon made a couple of high speed runs over the ponds to obtain a meal 2 Wilson's Phalaropes 8 short-billed dowitchers 2 dunlins 100-150 lesser and greater yellowlegs 5 solitary sandpipers 2 common snipes 5 semipalmated sandpipers 2 semipalmated plovers 20 spotted sandpipers 1 forster's tern 1 greater white fronted goose 1 northern pintail Northern shovelers Blue-winged teals gadwalls 3 ruddy ducks 4 great white egrets 1 sharp-shinned hawk (instead of taking flight, the yellowlegs all huddled together) 10 yellow warblers 5 yellow-rumped warblers 1 blue gray gnatcatcher Paul van Ginkel Madison #################### You received this email because you are subscribed to the Wisconsin Birding Network (Wisbirdn). To UNSUBSCRIBE or SUBSCRIBE, use the Wisbirdn web interface at: //www.freelists.org/list/wisbirdn. To set DIGEST or VACATION modes, use the Wisbirdn web interface at: //www.freelists.org/list/wisbirdn. Visit Wisbirdn ARCHIVES at: //www.freelists.org/archives/wisbirdn.