Leader: Martin Selzer
Participants: Bert Filemyr, Jane Henderson, Tom and Margot Sutherland, Bill Keim, tropical depression Ernesto

I believe it is Snoopy who starts his literary tales with it was a “dark and story night” well it was a dark and stormy morning. No matter how much we tried to convince ourselves that the sky was brightening up, it really wasn’t! Still in between rain and wind bands we managed to find most of the target species one hopes to see at the Johnson Sod Farm. We had a good number of pectoral sandpipers, a half-dozen American golden-plovers, and 3 buff-breasted sandpipers as well as least and semipalmated sandpipers, killdeers, black-bellied and semipalmated plovers and horned larks. By the time we had found the buff-breasted sandpipers the wind and rain was steady so we headed over to the Delea Sod Farm hoping that during the drive the rain at least would ease up. It didn’t and we were forced to admit that it really was too wet and too windy to scan the fields here.

Martin Selzer