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Since a few folks have asked about the bootheel I thought I'd post a note regarding my wanderings today. Note that at Ten Mile Pond, the back road to the main pools is closed at this time and the bridge on the south end of the area has been removed to be rebuilt. At Ten Mile Pond CA near East Prairie I found the expected birds: Sandpipers: Least, Solitary, Spotted, Pectoral, Stilt, and possibly Semipalmated; Lesser yellowlegs, Short-billed dowitcher Herons/Egrets (large roosting group): Snowy, Great blue, Little blue, Great, Black-crowned night Least bittern (very good looks at an openly perched bird) White Pelicans (maybe 50 - rough estimate) Semipalmated plover Killdeer Black terns (~18 of them) Wood ducks Mallards Least terns Summer tanager Purple martins Tree swallows Cliff swallows Otherwise we're seeing the usual slowdown of passerine activity. Many birds are either done nesting or are winding down. We still have Indigo buntings, Acadian flycatchers, Yellow-billed cuckoos, and Carolina wrens nesting on our plots for sure. In other notes, Black vultures have been seen on at least three occasions by me or my technicians, once at Ten Mile, and other times at Donaldson Point CA south of us within the last week or so. And for those just dying to know, I heard some promising double-raps the other day. Upon investigation I found what appeared to be a mature male, Red-necked beerswiller (Cerveza rojo missouriana) working half-heartedly (half drunkenly?) to either tear down or built a winter roost site (deerstand)... still no IBWO's in our neck of the woods as far as we know! ;-) Good birding Shane Pruett From the Boot __________________________________________________ ########################################################### * Audubon Society of Missouri's * * Wild Bird Discussion Forum * *---------------------------------------------------------* * To subscribe or unsubscribe, click here: * * https://po.missouri.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mobirds-l&A=1 * *---------------------------------------------------------* * To access the list archives, click here: * * http://po.missouri.edu/archives/mobirds-l.html * * * * To access the Audubon Society of Missouri Web * * Site: http://mobirds.org * ###########################################################