The ABC's 200th bird species was a Ruddy Turnstone thanks to Tim Hahn.  It was ID on May 14th which happens to be National Chicken Dance Day, though the Turnstone is a stocky colorful shorebird.  With unusually low water levels, a large variety of shorebirds have been viewable from the Trumpeter blind (facing east). Dunlins and short-billed dowitchers (below), semipalmated plovers, least sandpipers, pectoral sandpipers, solitary sandpiper, Wilson's phalarope and lessor yellowlegs were all spotted on May 15th in the Natural Resources Foundation hike, led by Aaron Stutz and Mike Adam.

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Thanks to Rich, Steve and Cody for erecting the second blind facing east and to Cody's Whitewater High School class for building the structure.   It makes for excellent shorebirding viewing given the low water levels.