Craig:
I'll add my kudos to the rest for finding this bird and sparking a great discussion on Ohio-birds. I also lurk on the ID frontiers list where the bird is being discussed, and several folks are writing the bird off as a Semipalmated Sandpiper based on the B. Norton web photos. It would be very good for someone to note on ID Frontiers that those photos may NOT show the "MS" as you just indicated, and also to note the behavior and the call note differences you observed, which to my knowledge were not brought up in any discussion there. If you and others who saw the bird are pretty certain it was a stint and not a semipalmated, then ideally someone who saw the bird should post the additional information to ID Frontiers. Wish I could have seen it, but I don't know that I have the knowledge to pick it out of a crowd.
Regards,
Andy Sewell
Columbus, Ohio
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Subject: [Ohio-birds] Conneaut mystery sandpiper--wrong photos were posted
And now, as Paul Harvey would have said, the rest of the story (so far anyways). I did some detective work regarding the photos of mystery sandpiper (MS) taken by photog B. Norton. The initial email he sent me had a number of individual photos, there was no web page of photos at that point as far as I know. These photos were the ones I viewed last Wednesday night, and MS is right there plain as day. Then I viewed the web page photos again........good grief, I'm not sure MS is in any of those photos. That web page has also been changed/updated by BN at least once since it's first appearance (per BN in private emails). I certainly wouldn't have directed people to that web page if I had known about half of the photos were of a freaking least sandpiper. Much thanks goes to Jen Brumfield for inspiring me to go do the detective work yesterday, frankly I'd become a little fatigued about the whole issue. Now I"m not a computer whiz, so I don't
know how to post photos at all. I could use a little help here on that...........Craig
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