Cheyenne Bottoms: Storm Dodging

There are those psychotic people who get a thrill from chasing storms.  I am not one of those people.  But when Tiff and I are down in Larned, it is too tempting to make the 35 minute trip over to Cheyenne Bottoms, even when there is inclement weather on the forecast.
So with the radio keeping me updated as to the weather, I made may way quickly around the Bottoms.  There were lots of birds around--I'm pretty sure there were a kamillion (that's a word, right?) Long-billed Dowitchers.  The wind was blowing pretty hard, so normally I would have taken some time to pick out any Short-billed Dowitchers, but it wasn't worth it today.  Anyways, I picked up the following year birds:
-Wilson's Phalarope (147)
-Great Egret (148)
-Snowy Egret (149)
-Hudsonian Godwit (150)
-Semipalmated Plover (151)
-Semipalmated Sandpiper (152)
-Bank Swallow (153)
-American Bittern (154)

 I love American Bitterns, and watching them at CB and Q is like watching them at no other place I have been.  They never stay in the open like this back in Michigan.

Two Marbled Godwits on the left and one Hudsonian Godwit on the right; notice the smaller size and darker complexion of the Hudsonian.