Summit Lake continues to produce the unexpected.  Not finding shorebird habitat?  Check extensive areas of lily pads.  I didn't expect to see a peep foraging and walking on the tops.  A great blue heron flushed this bird and brought it to my attention last night.  It struck me as a gray-and-white bird which brought to mind yellowlegs or sanderling but it was only peep size, a chest-heavy bird, bill longer than head.  Not much marking on the neck in fair-to-middlin' light.  It was not a spotted sandpiper, based on gait and shape, and appeared to be mostly in basic plumage which, in early September, should eliminate adult semipalmated sandpiper.  Any one know of westerns or other peeps foraging on lilly pads?  I've read westerns like to forage in deeper water and Sibley portrays a jacana or something doing so.  It's a little late for adult western sandpiper.  Does this make any sense?
 
Peace,
 
Gregory Bennett
Akron OH

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