Hello,
How you explain a Semi-palmated Sandpiper found on Ocean Shores few years
back in the Fall have Black Legs. Thi bird was well photographed and i
believe it is still on Dennis Paulson's Website under birds.IF you think
you had a Stint you sure need a photo of this Bird.

Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma

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> From: Eugene Hunn <hunnhome at accessone.com>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: brief birding trip to Okanogan Co., WA
> Date: Thursday, August 26, 1999 7:38 PM
>
> Tweets,
>
> George Gerdts and I just made a quick 24 hour excursion to Harts Pass and
> Tiffany Mt. near Mazama and Winthrop to enjoy the fine end-of-summer
> weather. En route we stopped each way at the Everett Sewage Ponds, but
found
> them nearly deserted.
>
> This afternoon we noticed just one shorebird, which looked and sounded to
me
> like a juvenile LEAST SANDPIPER, but it had black or at least very dark
> legs, though not apparently mud-caked. Would anyone care to comment on
how a
> dark-legged juvenile LEAST might differ from a juvenile Little Stint? The
> bird was on the cement bulwark in the main pond just east of the main
> southwest corner gate.
>
> The high mountains were rather quiet, as is often the case this time of
> year, but YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS were moving in good numbers with a few
> TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS. We noticed a minor southbound migration of mostly
> juvenile Red-tailed Hawks at Slate Peak and Tiffany Mt. (7400 & 8200 ft
> respectively), with one probable juvenile SWAINSON'S HAWK and a GOLDEN
EAGLE
> over Tiffany this morning.
>
> A male THREE-TOED WOODPECKER was working spruces in Meadows Campground
near
> Harts Pass.
>
> A N. PYGMY OWL woke us up this morning at Roger's Lake and called long
and
> hard while perched right overhead.
>
> A male SPRUCE GROUSE was nearby at Roger's Lake, wary but approachable to
20
> feet. I had never noticed the intricate concentric barring on their
dorsal
> feathers before. An elegant chicken.
>
> A couple of BOREAL CHICKADEES were along Freezeout Ridge trail not far
above
> the road. It's perhaps worth noting that some MOUNTAIN CHICKADEES
> (juveniles?) at this time of the year have dark gray caps and only the
> slightest hint of an eyeline, but their all white cheeks give them away.
>
> Near the summit of Tiffany Mt. were three HORNED LARKS, a juvenile and
two
> adults of the alpine nesting race alpina ... quite white faces, quite
> different from the nesting birds at Damon Pt., Ocean Shores, which are
the
> race strigata (according to Jewett et. al, Birds of Washington [1953]).
>
> By the way, no White-winged Crossbills nor Bohemian Waxwings. Just a
couple
> of RED CROSSBILLS of indeterminate type (quick fly-overs; no chance to
> record them).
>
> Gene Hunn.
>