What did
>surprise me was seeing a greater yellowlegs;I still tend not to think of
>shorebirds with small mountain lakes.

Baird's and Solitary sandpipers are frequent migrants at mountain lakes in
the fall, too.
>
>Another question for the shorebird gurus- what other northwestern shorebirds
>have predominantly inland fall migration routes?
>
>Jim Neitzel

Some of the shorebird species that are more common as migrants on the
Plains than on the Pacific coast are seen more frequently (especially
considering the smaller number of observers) in the Washington interior
than on the coast: Lesser Yellowlegs, Solitary Sandpiper, Semipalmated
Sandpiper, Baird's Sandpiper, and Stilt Sandpiper. All of them turn up in
greater numbers at Iona Island near Vancouver than at many places in the WA
interior, in part because it is such a good habitat and so well-studied,
probably in part because they turn inland at that latitude on their way
south.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416