I arrived 3:00 to 3:30 pm. Found the objective cover for my scope
jacket. Good diversity but no Western Sandpiper. Black-bellied Plover 1,
Stilt Sandpiper 5, Least Sandpiper 10, Semipalmated Sandpiper 1, Pectoral
Sandpiper 10, White-rumped Sandpiper 30, Long-billed Dowitcher 1 (heard
peep or keek call), 1 Wilson's Snipe, Lesser Yellowlegs 20, lots of
Killdeer. Birds were hard to count. Lots of movement and flying around.
At about 5:30 pm a Peregrine Falcon came in and flushed most of the birds
but some came back. Looked hard at the Semipalmated Sandpiper to assure
the ID and it was not a WESA, wrong back color (gray brown of SESA rather
than cold gray of WESA, uniform color of back in scapulars, no reddish,
bill not right for WESA. At least I got the scope objective back. Hope
someone finds a WESA again.
Jay
Jay G Lehman Cincinnati, OH
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