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I was at New Chicago Marsh this morning after 10 am and found Peggy Don
looking. We didn't have any luck with Ruff or Stilt Sandpiper in the first
pond northeast of the intersection of the EEC road and the tracks. Later
Frank Vanslager and Bob Reiling came back after venturing further north
along the tracks, and we were able to piggyback on their finding the STILT
SANDPIPER in the large pool west of the tracks -- the one near Spreckels
and State, as Bob reported. The view was much better looking into it from
Spreckels than from the tracks, as it was mostly over water, so less
heat-hazy.

Couldn't get any pictures of the STSA. But meantime I did take a couple of
shots of whatever I could get to stand still enough for my awkward mode of
digiscoping. Here are two of a bird I assumed to be a Least Sandpiper when
I was photographing it. But then when I got home and looked at the
pictures, the legs were black. Now that is probably either mud or an
artifact of the lighting. The extent of brown on the chest still says Least
to me. But looking at the pix I talked myself into thinking the bill shape
and the rest of the plumage wouldn't be inconsistent with Semipalmated, so
I wondered if I might have stumbled photograpically across one.  I still
figure an adult Least mostly molted to basic, but with some remnants of
alternate. But instruction welcome.

http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/SandpiperQuery.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/SandpiperQuery2.jpg

Tom Grey
www.geocities.com/tgrey41/index.html
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