[SBB] New Chicago Marsh

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All,
 
This morning as Frank Vanslager and I checked out New Chicago Marsh we had  
perhaps a hundred RED-NECKED PHALAROPES (in two different groups) with 4-5  
WILSON PHALAROPES on the edges of the flocks. LEAST and WESTERN SANDPIPERS seem  
to be filling some of the open spaces but the "far southern pond," by way of 
the  railroad tracks, was disappointing when compared to our last trip there 
(very  few birds).  A few GREATER YELLOWLEGS were also here and there, no groups 
 and no Lessers and a couple LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS were trying to rest up.   
A one point we had an unusual sighting of eight COMMON RAVEN flying high  
over the marsh heading east.  (All of the tails were nicely wedge shaped  but I 
thought that CORA were only seen in ones and twos?).  In Salt Pond  A16 we had 
a couple dozen non-breeding adult BONAPARTE'S GULLS (a couple  BOGU still had 
a little black on the upper back of the head).  The "peeps"  that were well 
seen from the boardwalk on the northeastern corner of New Chicago  Marsh failed 
to include a Semipalmated Sandpiper.  A SEMIPALMATED  PLOVER was also in the 
same area.
 
Take care,
Bob Reiling
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