[SBB] New Chicago Marsh - 7/20/06

[Mike Rogers <[[email protected]]>]

All,

I spent a few more hours at midday today 7/20/06 searching futilely for 
the re-reported Little Stint.

I found an adult SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER in the State and Spreckles pond 
at about 12:30pm. This bird appeared to be even shorter-billed and more 
crisply marked (less basic plumage) than the bird I saw earlier this 
week, so I headed up to that bird's usual spot - and sure enough it was 
still there as well (while Bob and Frank were still observing the first 
bird) - so definitely two adult SESA in that pond today.

Two SNOWY PLOVERS (at least one a juvenile) were on the third island 
west of the EEC in Salt Pond A16.

Other shorebirds included 1 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 9 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, 
and 40+ WILSON'S PHALAROPES, and a WESTERN SANDPIPER with an orange flag 
on its right leg northeast of the railroad tracks, near where Dean 
Manley saw it Sunday.

At one point, I thought I heard a Bank Swallow, but looking up I got 
onto a tail-less TREE SWALLOW instead - weird looking bird. Steve said 
he had heard a probable Bank Swallow earlier - and located a 
brown-backed swallow as well as the same tail-less Tree Swallow, so 
perhaps they are hanging out together!

Mike Rogers
Sunnyvale


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