Dunlins, Lake County

[Mark Wallner]

At Sedge Meadow FP, another one of the greatest places on Earth, while staring for an hour at the duplex Beaver lodge, the biggest Beaver lodge I've ever seen and a most beautiful sight; more beautiful than the Sistine Chapel, St. Basil's Cathedral, and the Taj Mahal put together, a fast moving flock of Dunlins came flying around.  A rough video of them can be seen here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQPiVyz0QCc.  A short video of a Beaver piling mud on its lodge this morning can be seen here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1olHWUdZ6W0.  The early native Americans didn't call them little people for nothing.

Mark Wallner,  Pleasant Prairie, WI