A Poor Weather Fallout Includes White-winged Scoter ~ May 5, 2024

I got a text that Adam Miller had found a male White-winged Scoter at Echo Lake. When I got there, Mike and Corinne Schall were looking at it in the light rain. I took some fairly good photos of it, considering it was pretty far out and raining at the time.

White-winged Scoter

Nearby Lake Minsi and the Martins Creek Environmental Preserve pond held nothing out of the ordinary, so I drove towards home and checked out the Hollo Road pond, which held two male Northern Shovelers.

Northern Shovelers

The flooded field near the Christian Springs Road pond held a bunch of shorebirds that included 5 Greater and 9 Lesser Yellowlegs, 5 Solitary Sandpipers, and 6 Least Sandpipers.

Green Pond held a larger group of shorebirds, including an impressive number of 48 Lesser Yellowlegs. The list also included 6 Greater Yellowlegs, 17 Solitary Sandpipers, 24 Least Sandpipers, 2 Spotted Sandpipers, a Killdeer, and a Semipalmated Plover.

Semipalmated Plover

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