Yesterday (5/20), there was an amazing concentration of shorebirds at the 
mouth of Charcoal Creek, just west of Missisquoi NWR.  On the east side of 
the Bay in a manure pit were 4 Semipalmated Sandpipers and 1 Solitary 
Sandpiper.  Out at the far end of the Bay were 4 Dunlins, 12 Short-billed 
Dowitchers, 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 1 Lesser Yellowlegs, 43 Semipalmated 
Plovers, 12 Black-bellied Plovers, and a few Least Sandpipers.  Also 1 
Common Tern, 1 Caspian Tern, and 1 Ring-necked Duck.

Allan



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Allan M. Strong
University of Vermont
The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
347 Aiken Center
Burlington, VT 05405
802-656-2910
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