"Dark-legged Peep Sp: Unprecedented for the date was a Western/Semipalmated Sandpiper discovered on the beach at Maumee Bay SP 5 Dec (Chuck Anderson, Matt Kemp). Chuck provided a video with an image still of the bird on Rarebird.org. The following day, Dale ? relocated the bird in the same spot, and too photographed it, his photo also posted on Rarebird. " ________________________________ Rare certainly but unprecedented? Consider the last paragraph of this note from Dec 1998. http://aves.net/birdnews/past1298.htm scroll to the bottom to read of my Western Sandpiper/Semipalmated Sandpiper conundrum along the Cedar Point Chausee 2 Dec and again 5 Dec. cheers Vic Fazio Lawton, OK ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]