Hello Tweeties,

yesterday's mystery birds were a couple of Juvenile Stilt Sandpipers, Calidris himantopus. here's today's mystery bird, photographed in Galveston, Texas, of all places;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/09/one_last_mystery_bird_for_you.php

i really hope that the photographer, Joseph Kennedy, and all the other bird people on this list, are weathering this terrible storm alright!

cheers,

GrrlScientist
Devorah
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/
Roosting high up a tree somewhere in Central Park, NYC