----- Original Message -----
From: "Denny Granstrand" <dgranstrand at charter.net>
To: "Bob Flores" <rflores at smwireless.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: da stint


> Hi Bob,
>
> We saw da stint from quite a distance. If we had not know what we were
looking for, I don't think we would have been comfortable in identifying
this bird.
>
> We saw: a small peep with black legs, rufous throat and upper breast with
spotty streaking below the rufous, quite dark wings and back with some
reddish across the back, and a shorter bill than the Westerns nearby. It
was much darker than the Westerns and more rufous on the upper breast than
the Leasts, plus it had black legs which further separated it from Least.
Where a Least has buffy streaking on the upper breast, this bird had solid
rufous. Nancy and Bob Woodley saw it from quite a close distance so will be
able to give a more complete description.
>
> Because of the distance at which we saw it, I would have hesitated to say
for certain I had seen it if I had been by myself. Kerry and I were able to
discuss all of the field marks we were seeing and compare the bird to the
nearby peeps.
>
> Denny
>
> * Denny Granstrand *
> * Yakima, WA *
> * dgranstrand at charter.net *
> bird photos on-line at:
> http://osprey.bardill.net/gallery/
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