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From: Siddharthan Ramachandramurthi <[[email protected]]>
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Subject: [SBB] Semipalmated Sandpiper in Mountain View
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Hi,

I watched a SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER at 7 PM today in
the
Coast Casey Forebay of the Mountain View Shoreline.
The bird was foraging alongside the Western
Sandpipers,
but at the same time stood out and was not in sync
with
them. Since it was very close to the dike as you enter
from the Terminal Way parking lot, I could observe it
carefully in my scope.

When suddenly the birds flushed in a large commotion,
I looked up to see a Gull swoop down and grab an
an Avocet chick. Unfazed by the pursuing Avocets, 
the Gull went on to gobble the chick in mid-air. 
Now I know why only few Avocets seem to have more 
than one chick in tow.

--Sidd Ramachandramurthi
  Mountain View, CA 



	
		
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