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I walked back to the golf course and dumping area next to the cemetery late this
afternoon, and, amid the abundant killdeer, I found two adult spotted sandpipers
along with two chicks.
One of the chicks had pale spots on the breast, and the other didn't show any spotting
at all yet, and still had downy feathers on it's head. (Sent me off to the web to read
up on polyandry, a new word in my vocabulary, to see if that explained the difference
in the plumage.)
Inga Schmidt
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