Date of sighting: 9/2/2011

Hi,

Sorry for the tardy post, but myself and Ann Greiner found a Black Turnstone, first record for Mono County, second for eastern Sierra, and one of few inland records, on friday at the DWP dock. I was loading the gull research boat into the lake for our annual gull chick mortality assesment on the colony, and flushed the BLTU which f;lew a few yards, vocalizing, and landed again. Very distinctive. While I wrangled the boat out of the way, Ann got some great shots of it.
I made a few phone calls, but had no good internet access to post more widely, since after documenting the bird, we left for a few days to camp on the Mono Lake Islets. But worth a tromp around the lake to see if it’s still around. Sure a lot of flies to eat

This post was submitted by Kristie Nelson.

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