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From: "Peggy Don" <[[email protected]]>
To: "Bill Bousman" <[[email protected]]>
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Subject: Re: [SBB] Ruffs, Pacific Golden-Plover, Stilt Sandpiper
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 15:22:11 -0700
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SBBers:

Correction:  In my post this morning I said,  "Yesterday (08/21/04) ..."  I
meant 08/20/04.

Peggy

> >SBBers:
> >
> >Yesterday (08/21/04) morning I had been watching the REEVE in New Chicago
> >Marsh when the dowitchers and Reeve flew across the RR tracks toward
State
> >and Spreckles.  Shortly thereafter two other birders and I saw the
PACIFIC
> >GOLDEN-PLOVER on a small island very close to the pickleweed on the RR
> >side.  Five minutes after the other birders left the plover flew to an
> >island in the middle of the pond.  For the next hour and a half it stayed
> >there camouflaged in the pickleweed.  During that time Ann Verdi, Kathy
> >Parker and Bob Reiling and his daughter dropped by.  We also saw the
Reeve
> >sleeping with the dowitchers and then, apparently waking up in a foul
> >mood, chasing and bullying any WILSON'S PHALAROPES in sight.  We did not
> >see the Stilt Sandpiper.
> >
> >In the evening around 6 PM I returned to look for the Stilt Sandpiper
from
> >State and Spreckles.  I found Dave Weber who had it in view on a small
> >island.  While looking at a half dozen SEMIPALMATED PLOVERs on the
> >opposite side the sandpiper slipped out of our view.  After Dave left I
> >found the RUFFs in the northeastern area of the pond.  Looking for the
> >STILT SANDPIPER again I saw its head.  You can distinguish its head from
> >the yellowlegs that it was sleeping with by its white supercilium and
> >slight rufous on the back edge of the auriculars.  Depending on the
> >lighting you can also see a rufous cast on the crown.  When viewed in
> >total it is noticeably smaller; and its underparts are barred.  My
general
> >impression is that it is gray and not as dark as the drawing in the
Sibley
> >Guide.  I hope that this helps those who like me wondered if they could
> >pick it out among the sleeping birds.
> >
> >Good birding,
> >Peggy Don
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> Bill Bousman
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