Subject: [Tweeters] My unusual peep on Marrowstone Island
Date: Aug 31 12:14:09 2012
From: Richard Isherwood - rjisherwood at gmail.com


I am surprised I had no responses to my earlier posting, which I am
repeating here.

*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 now think it was the offspring of a Western Sandpiper which had an affair
with a Yellowlegs, but I would welcome any other ideas.


Richard Isherwood
Port Townsend WA
Rjisherwood at gmail.com
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