Subject: Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Date: Oct 21 10:59:40 1996
From: "A. Knue" - aknue at u.washington.edu


Yesterday, Oct 20, I along with a few others including Ruth Sullivan, saw
the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper near the Three Crabs Restaurant in
Sequim. We watched the bird for nearly an hour as it fed at varying
distances, sometimes too close for our telescopes to focus. The bird was
feding around the first pond on the right, when you turn right on to the
road directly before the restaurant. Looks like it comes and goes
throughout the day and it does spend a lot of time feeding in the various
ditches and pools to the rear and left of the pond. It actually took off
flying high at around 11:30 toward Dungeness. The tide was high at that
point, so maybe it was going to feed at the spit. There were also
hundreds of American Wigeon with one or two Eurasian mixed in at the Three
Crabs waterfront.

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* Alan J. Knue *
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