Betty Jones (along with Murray Hansen and Jean Dair) saw a shorebird in
Satsop today that definitely deserves to be checked out. Here is the
description from her rare bird report for the CBC.

Distance from bird: 100 yards
Relative size of bird: 10" - Smaller than Greater Yellowlegs
Head & Neck: Pale auriculars, top buffy-gray to nape-to where bar pattern
starts
Eye & Lores: Slight supercillium, no eye ring - dark eye
Upper & Lower Mandibles: Darks, with lighter bas to mandible
Legs & Feet: Yellowish-green (not bright yellow like yellowlegs)
Upperparts: Nape-Buffy Gray and Back same - Rump white, tip of tip (?)
solid dark - feather pattern described as dark chevrons
Underparts: White throat - chest darker than belly crissum lighter than
belly
Wing: Wings slightly shorter than tail no obvious wing bars
Behavior: Picking in water - No probing
Bill: Droop at tip - slightly longer than head
Additional comments: Feeding with a Greater Yellowlegs - Not similar size
or coloring

She thought the Juvenile Stilt Sandpiper pictured in Sibley's was the
closest she could find to it. Ruth and Patrick believe it may be the Ruff
they found last month in Elma still hanging around.

Exact location: .6 miles North of Monte-Elma Road on Moore Rd. 1 Mile from
Satsop (between Montesano and Elma, WA)

I did not talk to her so do not know anything more than this.

Ended up with 96 (97 if this can be ID'd) species for the day at the Satsop
CBC. Highlights were a SWAMP SPARROW in the middle of Wenzel-Slough Rd.
near the silos, a RED PHALAROPE on the west end of the Brady Loop, a
WHITE-TAILED KITE and 8 WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS.

Bruce Fischer
Aberdeen, WA
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