Date: 5/7/26 8:54 am From: Tom Nagel <000007c6b764b0cb-dmarc-request...> Subject: Loess Bluffs Pools & Shorebirds, Holt County
The northwest part of Snow Goose Pool B (the second pool south of the
turnoff from the auto tour loop to go out the north entrance) was being
worked yesterday (vegetation knocked down & mud disked) with hundreds if
not thousands of shorebirds feeding there, including marbled godwit, rudddy
turnstone, willet, dunlin & Wilson's phalarope.
GPS 40.087107°, -95.267151°
They were also working the *second pool* south of the pump house pool on
the east side of the auto tour loop as well. (the pump house pool is the
first pool after you leave the wooded area on the north side of the auto
tour loop that has grasslands to the south) It had 11 black necked stilts
in it along with numerous shorebirds. (The first pool south of the pump
house is a couple of hundred yards away from the road back in the woods
while the second one is next to the road with a small pull off at its north
end.) Small parking lot location at this pool is:
GPS 40.097458°, -95.230192°
Several sandhill cranes, yellow-headed blackbirds & great-tailed grackles
were seen and heard on the refuge.
Tom Nagel
St. Joseph
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