Subject: [Tweeters] Probable Curlew Sandpiper at Fill
Date: Oct 31 16:13:44 2006
From: Adam Sedgley - AdamS at seattleaudubon.org
Monya Noelke and I also birded the Union Bay Natural Area this morning
but couldn't find any shorebirds. Our consolation prize was a
Short-eared Owl that circled overhead for several minutes. A nice
treat for a beautifully crisp morning.
Cheers,
Adam Sedgley
adams at seattleaudubon.org
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[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Larry
Schwitters
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:44 PM
To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Probable Curlew Sandpiper at Fill
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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