Dennis wrote:

>Maybe Al's early yellowlegs was just an anomaly, like the 12 July
>Semipalmated Sandpiper that I've mentioned. Seeing a single bird probably
>shouldn't imply that *populations or flocks* are appearing simultaneously
>from C to shining C. When I was doing the research for my shorebird book,
>I concluced that arrival times of both adults and juveniles in California
>were later than those from Cascadia. I can see, however, that I definitely
>missed the boat in not finding out about this wonderful arrival-date data
>set from Vancouver, better than anything I had from Washington.
>
I was thinking the same thing except that the next day that I saw that
early juv. LEYE I saw two juveniles! That same day there was a report of 3
from further south which I think were juveniles. Perhaps something unusual
happened this year?

Other juvs here: The California Gulls are common now, all with black bills
as was the first juv. Ring-billed Gull yesterday. Last friday (July 28) the
ocean was full of begging Common Murre juveniles and I noticed the first
juv. Willets and Elegan Tern. I had my first juvenile Western Sandpipers
yesterday (3) and the first juv. Red-necked Phalarope as well as plenty of
juv. Wilson's Phalaropes.
No sign of juvenile Sanderling, Black-bellied Plover, Greater Yellowlegs,
Semipal. Plover etc. yet.

Good juvenile birding :)

Alvaro Jaramillo
Half Moon Bay, CA

alvaro at quake.net