I guess I should have mentioned this but there was a SPOTTED
SANDPIPER on Shoveller's Pond last time I was at the Fill (10 days or
so ago ... late morning on a week last Monday or Tuesday IIRC).

Breeding plumage with the spots. And being slightly noisy as the
killdeer and Green Winged Teal seemed to be having a disagreement.
And fly around showing the wing stripe and stiff winged flight.

Of course I assumed it had been spotted (so to speak ...) already.

My bad.

On May 15, 2009, at 8:24 PM, Connie Sidles wrote:

> Later on, Doug Parrott pulled his favorite trick of showing me a
> picture he had "just taken not five minutes ago; I'm sure the bird
> is still there." It was a SPOTTED SANDPIPER in breeding plumage.
> Knowing how futile it was to try to find this bird (having
> experienced so many other times when I looked in vain for one of
> Doug's birds), I hurried off back to the Main Pond, hoping some
> kind birder was carrying a cell phone in case we had to call 911 to
> come and revive me. Luckily the sandpiper was still there, foraging
> on the west side of the pond. What a beauty - I could see all its
> spots, although I had to wait awhile for my pulse to slow down to
> be sure the spots I was seeing were on the bird and were not just
> me having an attack.

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Kevin Purcell
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