Where in Holt county is Big Lake?  Rosalie Peters






>From: Tommie Rogers <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Big Lake Birding in NW MO
>Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:03:12 -0500
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>After birding Big Lake in Holt county 3 times during this  year, I had
>concluded that it was a dead lake and attracted no birds.  Today was
>completely a surprise, however, and good birding.  Shorebird habitat is
>excellent.  I wish I had checked it 2 months ago.
>6 Double-crested Cormorants
>80 Am. White Pelicans
>Pied-billed Grebes
>200 Canada Geese (20 of these were very small, I assume Lesser)
>300+ Gadwall
>200+ N Shovelers
>60 N Pintails
>Mallards
>40 Green-winged Teal
>30 Ring-necked Ducks
>70 Ruddy Ducks
>30+ Snow Geese
>4 Wilson's Snipe
>4 Bonapart's gulls
>3 Franklin's gulls
>American Coots
>60 Long-billed Dowitchers
>50 greater Yellowlegs
>8 Lesser Yellowlegs
>12 Stilt Sandpipers
>4 Black-bellied Plovers
>1 Least Sandpiper
>1 Pectoral Sandpiper
>2 DUNLIN
>14 Tree Swallows
>4 Barn Swallows
>2 BREWER's Blackbirds
>Sparrows- Swamp, Song, Lincoln's, Am Tree Sparrow
>1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
>1 Red-shafted N Flicker
>American Bittern flying above field by Squaw Creek NWR
>                     Tommie Rogers
>                     Holt county
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