The Stilts Keep Coming - 17 Aug 2026
Although the temperature was not quite near 80ºF it was humid enough that the afternoon felt HOT. That did not dissuade me from checking out Pt. Mouillee SGA early this evening. I arrived at Mouillee Creek shortly after 4:30 pm and headed out onto the Middle Causeway to the Banana Unit. My plan was to ride to the Banana, check out the east shoreline of the Vermet Unit, loop around Cell 5, then head south to Cell 3 then further south to the South Causeway and Roberts Road parking lot. The Middle Causeway was quiet. Ducks have not arrived, yet so the Humphries, Long Pond and Vermet showed no birds other than a scattering of Great Egrets. A massive flock of 250 Double-crested Cormorants appeared on the east horizon and would later be found in Cell 4. As I rode the east shoreline of the Vermet Unit north toward the North Causeway I quickly noticed the lack of shorebirds. A single juvenile Lesser Yellowlegs was quietly foraging in the thin canal between the shoreline and vegetation. I in...
