Could someone let us know what LEYE is? Thanks, Jane Hadley

On Wed, 2 Aug 1995, Alvaro Jaramillo wrote:

> 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
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