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From: "David C. Bailey" <baileydc at pdx.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:55:01 -0700
To: Oregon Birders Online <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
Cc: Lee & Lori Cain <4cains at charter.net>, Steve Warner
<jblack at pacifier.com>, Neal Maine <nmaine at pacifier.com>, Mike Patterson
<celata at pacifier.com>
Subject: [obol] Re: RBA: BRISTLE-THIGHED CURLEW: Sunset Beach, Clatsop
Co.!!!!!!!

UPDATE: I got back out there and the BRISTLE-THIGHED CURLEW is still
there as of 16:30. When Eva and I left the beach it was about 100 meters
or less south of the Sunset Beach auto entrance. Note that this is about
1.1 miles south of the initial location. This time I also saw it down in
the wet sand and at the surfline picking, though most of its time was
spent up beach near the interface between the dry and wet sand near the
foot of the foredune. It did for time hang out with a group of about 8
WHIMBREL as well. This bird is somewhat flighty and nervous, a bit more
so than the Whibrel. This is different from the birds that showed up
during the invasion year in the mid 1990s where the B-t Curlews were
very approachable. Still, I managed to get some diagnostic photos which
I will post shortly to Eva's Blog. I'll let you know.

If someone on Tweeters and/or Calbirds or the NW Cal. birding groups
cross post this sighting that would be appropriate so that birders up
and down the coast can be alerted in case this is another fall-out
event. As Dave mentioned, there was a storm that came in last night and
the winds are from the south.

David

>
>
> David C. Bailey wrote:
>
>> Monday 22 May 2006
>> Sunset Beach, exacty1.1 mile north of the auto entrance at Sunset Beach
>> 13:50-14:05 and still there when I left to alert.
>>
>> BRISTLE-THIGHED CURLEW
>>
>> I had wonderful views and am familiar with this species and its
>> identification. Orange strongly brown-barred tail (four bars),
>> unstreaked buffy pink cinnamon rump, underparts streaking from the
>> neck stopping abruptly at the pectoral region, bristled thighs,
>> upperparts spangled with large creamy-buff spots near as large as the
>> warm chocolate-brown spots/patterning. Pinkish-buff flanks without,
>> or very little barring, . The bird called in flight the
>> characteristic "wolf-whistle." I decribed the whistle as a
>> eee-ooo-wee or eee-OOO-wheep with the oo in the middle drawn out,
>> decidedly not the call of the superficially similar whimbrel, which
>> also shows much duller plumage and smaller marks on upperparts, more
>> barring on tail and much less contrast to the light and dark markings
>> throughout its plumage.
>>
>> The bird is hanging out around the south road entrance to the Camp
>> Rilea Millitary Reservation. It is working the high area just below
>> the foredune. The 30 or more Whimbrel on the beach between Gearhart
>> and this spot, including just west of the B-T. Curlew are by contrast
>> all working the surf-line hunting mole crabs and swalling them whole.
>> So, be suspect of the curlews in the water and look for one high and
>> dry and pinkish-cimmamon!
>>
>> I am going back now with my camera.
>>
>> David
>>
>> David C. Bailey
>> Seaside, Oregon
>> baileydc at pdx.edu
>>
>>
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