Subject: [Tweeters] Unusual peep on Marrowstone Island
Date: Aug 20 14:58:25 2012
From: Richard Isherwood - rjisherwood at gmail.com


I birded the causeway area between Marrowstone and Indian Islands this
morning. In the tidal lagoon south of the road was a flock of about 100
peeps - mostly juvenile Western, but several Least sandpipers.

One bird stood out as different. It had bright yellow legs - as bright as a
Greater Yellowlegs - and very white underparts except for a diffuse
grey-brown breastband. It had a white forehead, between the top of its bill
and the front of its streaked brownish crown, and wide white supercilia. It
was perhaps intermediate in size between Western and Least and had a very
slight droop to its black bill. There was little or no bright chestnut on
its back.

I tried hard to make it into either Long Toed or Temminck's Stints, both of
which I used to know in the Far East, but neither fits at all, and their
legs are dull greenish, not bright yellow.

Any ideas, anyone?



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Richard Isherwood
Port Townsend WA
Rjisherwood at gmail.com
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