We could find no shorebirds at the Fill main pond this afternoon.

Larry and Leora Schwitters
Issaquah
On Oct 30, 2006, at 3:04 PM, kitd wrote:

> Tweeters,
> ?This morning at around 10:30, I found what I believe to be a CURLEW
> SANDPIPER feeding at the edge of the Montlake Fill's main pond. At the
> time I met another birder, named Mike (Sorry I forgot your last name!),
> and we agreed that it was probably a Dunlin. But upon consulting
> Sibley,
> and Dennis Paulson's "Shorebirds of North America", I've decided that
> the bird's field marks are those of an adult Curlew Sandpiper. The
> upper-
> parts were distinctly gray with little or no brown tinge, neither was
> there
> any brown on the breast, which was almost as pale as the very white
> belly. Also there was a noticeable white supercilium. The bill was long
> and droopy like a Dunlin's. I did not see it fly.
> ?I note that Sibley writes that Curlew Sandpipers "prefer freshwater
> pools"
> (although Paulson does not make this distinction).
> ? Also of note at this same pond was a group of at least ten(!) Hooded
> Mergansers, seven of which were adult males, and a couple of Cackling
> Geese in a larger group of Canada Geese.
> ?
> Kit Dieffenbach
> Seattle
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