Yes, the shorebirding has some potential on the MO side in that area.....

There are some nice sandbars to observe from the Chain of Rocks bridge.
Great habitat for a MO Buffie and a birder friend had a Sanderling there
yesterday.
He returned today and while he was gone, his car was broken into while
parked at Riverfront Park in North St. Louis co. This was about 8 AM this
morning.

If you go there to bird (on either side actually) please:
- Be aware of your surroundings - anyone watching you.
- Don't crack your windows - it makes it easier for the thefts
- DO NOT leave any valuables in your car - handbags, backpacks, camera
equipment, optics,  etc...... take them with you OR better yet leave them at
home.

Just a warning for those that might want to bird in this area.

Charlene Malone
Chesterfield, MO
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Korotev" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 12:44 PM
Subject: Chain-of-Rocks (IL)


> This morning I walked down the Mississippi River from the Chain-of-Rocks
> parking lot on the Illinois side to red cross on map here (1.1 miles):
>
>
http://topozone.com/map.asp?lat=38.7436&lon=-90.1832&s=50&layer=DRG25&size=l
&u=0
>
> Because the water level is so low, most of the eastern quarter of what's
> shown on the map as river is now beach and dried mud.  I was standing on
> dry land at the red cross.  The polygonal mud cracks are extraordinary in
> places, 10-12 inches deep.  You can walk on it, but it's hard to set up a
> scope.  The habitat looked good, but here's all I could find in the way of
> shorebirds:
>
> 20  Killdeer
>   4  Least Sandpipers
>   1  Pectoral Sandpiper
> 10  Western Sandpipers
>   8  Baird's Sandpipers
>
> All these birds were in IL, but they were a quarter of a mile from MO.  It
> looked like I could have walked the shoreline on the MO side (North
> Riverfront Pak), too, but I think the shoreline there is rocky with no
> muddy ponds.  If the weather changes, both these places look good for
> possible Sanderlings and Ruddy Turnstones.
>
> Randy Korotev
> Saint Louis, MO
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>
>

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