There is a single Greater Yellowlegs that seems to prefer to feed in the canal that runs adjacent to Birch Bay, unlike all its friends. Today, I watched it for a long while. Instead of flying from one side to the other, it would swim across, get out on the opposite bank, shake its legs and then its body and then sun itself dry before looking for food again. I saw it do this 3 times. Then it went across again spinning as it did like a phalarope!! only a bit more awkwardly. This seemed to stir up the small fish as obviously spotted something, got excited, and took flight mid water from a spot too deep I think to have any footing (this was also quite awkward) and splashed down a few feet away and immediately caught a fish.

Has anyone else seen this type of behavior with a Greater Yellowlegs?

Cindy Ashy