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From: Justin Hite
Date: 13 Jul 2008
Time: 16:15:08 -0400
Remote Name: 65.241.2.253
I just spent three days stumbling around in the heat and beauty of the southeast and east shore of Mono Lake. Perhaps the strangest bird I saw was a Band-tailed Pigeon that flew in from the southeast, circled overhead once, and then flew back the way it came. Also a Blue-winged Teal drake, a Baird's Sandpiper, some other good shorebirds (both Yellowlegs, LB Dowitcher, Semipalmated Plover, some Marbled Godwits). And 8 Ring-billed Gulls, one Bonaparte's, and three flight-capable juvenile Californias mixed up the gull scene. Notably absent were large numbers of Wilson's Phalaropes...I saw maybe 50.