Stilt sandpiper in Green River just north of the 200th st bridge in Kent
right now.

Rick Tyler

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 7:29 PM Mark Ahlness <mahlness at gmail.com> wrote:


> Today Janeanne Houston and I saw the bird, details to follow below - but

> first we need to thank this community, without which there would be no

> report here...

>

> To Jim Flynn for clarifying the location of the many "ponds" in Kent, to

> Ed Newbold, whose Tweeters post from this morning gave us hope when we were

> about to call it a day (we passed it on, Ed), to John Puschock for

> confirming that we did indeed have the bird, to Marv Breece for encouraging

> the video capture of birds, to the many folks who posted to eBird, and

> finally to the young fellow in the orange shirt who was walking between the

> 200th and 204th locations (we knew he had something when he did not come

> back as he had been) - thank you, thank you all!

>

> We saw the Stilt Sandpiper at the 204th ponds. Some might know this as the

> intersection of S 204th and Frager Rd. Had to look through chain link

> fence, but no problem. It was at the end of the boat ramp, as mentioned by Marcy

> D'Addio.

>

> It was joined by a Greater Yellowlegs, and they hung out together for a

> long time. A

> Spotted Sandpiper joined them briefly, but moved on.

>

> A short video of the Stilt Sandpiper with the Greater Yellowlegs:

> https://youtu.be/ZOPG8zf9Qt8 and https://flic.kr/p/2h3WkyE

>

> Mark Ahlness

> mahlness at gmail.com

> Seattle, WA

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