Persistent low water on the Connecticut River hasn't produced much 
shorebird fallout in the past few days, but quality trumped quantity 
this morning with a male Wilson's Phalarope at the Pompy Farms oxbow.  I 
had great looks at the bird as it foraged along the outer edge of the 
cattail-covered peninsula that extends southward from the cut that 
separates the main river from the oxbow.  I might not have found if I 
hadn't walked out there from the north end of the Killdeer farm fields.  
Although the bird was still present when I left ~7:30 am, I'm not sure 
it stayed, as I just talked to Ed Hack, who didn't find it (yet).

Surprisingly, there were no migrant shorebirds at Pompy Flats or the 
mouth of the Ompompanoosuc, but I did find 17 Semipalmated Plovers and 1 
Least Sandpiper on the flats at Ledyard at 7 am.  Birds are moving, so 
it's worth getting out there and looking while we have low water!

Chris

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Chris Rimmer
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
P.O. Box 420
Norwich, VT 05055
802-649-8281 ext. 1
www.vtecostudies.org