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Subject: [SBB] Bank Swallow, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Vaux's Swift
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Folks:

This morning, 7/27/2003, I stopped by the CCFS waterbird pond to look for 
Mike Mammoser's juvenile Semipalmated Sandpiper.  There was a lot of 
movement of calidrids in and out of the pond, which has a good bit of 
exposed mudflats presently.  I noted swallows using the wire on the island 
that support nets for shorebird banding and, in studying these, mostly 
young Tree and Barn Swallows, I found a juvenile BANK SWALLOW, about 80% 
the size of the Tree Swallows, with white curving up around and behind the 
auriculars and white edging to the tertials.  The brown chest band was 
deeper and darker than those occasionally seen on Tree Swallows.

I continued to look through the calidrids, almost all adult Western 
Sandpipers.  However, I did find an adult SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER with 
alternate scapulars quite distinctive on the left side, but in active molt 
on the right side (asymmetric).  The bill was quite long for a 
Semipalmated, very similar to Western, but had a slightly flattened 
tip.  There was one WILSON'S PHALAROPE in with the calidrids and at one 
point a flock of 10 RED-NECKED PHALAROPE stopped by.

Later in the morning I took a walk in Monte Bello and enjoyed a mixed swift 
and swallow flock along the Indian Creek Trail.  In this flock were at 
least three VAUX'S SWIFTS and five WHITE-THROATED SWIFTS.

Bill

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