I drove up to the Moody Road area late this afternoon to see if there were any shorebirds in the fluddles.  I found a few.  In one fluddle on Moody, I saw 1 Lesser Yellowlegs, 1 Solitary Sandpiper, 9 Pectoral Sandpipers, and 1 Wilson’s Snipe.  In an adjoining puddle were 5 Brewer’s Blackbirds. 

I counted 28 White Pelicans and 8 Sandhill Cranes on the east side of Meridian Road between IL 75 and the bridge over the Pecatonica River.  They were back in a flooded oxbow, but you could see the tops of the heads of many of the pelicans.