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From: "Roland Kenner" <[[email protected]]>
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Subject: [SBB] Stilt Sandpiper at New Chicago Marsh
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This morning Pat Kenny and I went out to New Chicago Marsh, walking out the
railroad tracks from the EEC entrance road.  About 9:00 am we had a very
brief look at an adult STILT SANDPIPER in the first pond north of the tracks
before everything flushed out of sight.  We then found the RUFF.  It offered
essentially one view posed alongside a Dowitcher, both birds oriented the
same way with heads and bills turned under.  In this view the RUFF was
smaller than the Dowitcher.

We walked to the railroad junction.  Of interest were two SNOWY PLOVERs in
the last big pond on the left before the junction.  On the way back out we
refound the STILT SANDPIPER in the same pond, and we watched it, later with
Bob Reiling and Frank Vanslager, from about 11 to noon.  The Stilt Sandpiper
is an adult in the middle of the molt to basic plumage: the remains of black
horizontal barring down the breast and flanks all the way to the tail, the
hint of rufous at the back of the top of the head and below and behind the
eye, some basic and some alternate plumage feathers on the back, and a
mostly basic plumage face, gray with a white supercilium.

There were good numbers of both WILSON'S and RED-NECKED PHALAROPEs and a lot
of LESSOR YELLOWLEGs with only a few GREATERs.

Roland Kenner

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