[NatureNS] mystery sandpiper

Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:36:21 -0300
From: Bob Lindsay <rhlindsay@accesswave.ca>
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Hi, Liz.

No; it was the other way around. The Sanderling is smaller, plainer and 
chunkier and has a shorter bill than what I saw.

What I saw was definitely not a plover.

But thanks for the suggestion.

Bob

Elizabeth Doull wrote:
> What about the juvenile Black bellied plover?  You said it looked plain 
> / had a short bill and no black belly??
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Lindsay" <rhlindsay@accesswave.ca>
> To: <kenmcken@eastlink.ca>; "Nature NS" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 1:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] great egret at Conrad's Beach
> 
> 
>> Hi, Ken.
>>
>> Sanderling was one of the first that I discounted, mainly because it's 
>> a much squatter bird - chunkier, shorter legs, shorter bill, lighter 
>> and more uniform in colour, and I'm generally able to ID these, which 
>> I've often seen here.
>>
>> I thought perhaps the Purple Sandpiper or Solitary Sandpiper were 
>> possibilities, but the legs were darker than the dull green shown in 
>> my field guide for the Solitary, and it didn't have the yellow legs of 
>> the Purple.
>>
>> I've never seen either of these two in the field that I know of. The 
>> only time I recall a Solitary Sandpiper was one ID'd by my mother, 
>> when I was living at home in Brookfield (Colchester County, near 
>> Truro) back in the early 1960s. It was October, and it had apparently 
>> run into our clothesline during a night migration and fallen dead to 
>> the ground, where we discovered it the next morning.
>>
>> But I digress.
>>
>> That's about all I can offer for this sandpiper.
>>
>> I also heard the "pffft" of the Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow in the 
>> grassy dunes above the beach, this morning, and a few times in the 
>> last two or three weeks.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>
>> kenmcken@eastlink.ca wrote:
>>> Hi Bob What about Sanderling?
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Bob Lindsay <>
>>> Date: Friday, June 15, 2007 11:21 am
>>> Subject: [NatureNS] great egret at Conrad's Beach
>>>
>>>> Good morning, all.
>>>>
>>>> This morning, a few minutes after 0700, I saw a Great Egret at 
>>>> Conrad's Beach, Lawrencetown. As I drove in Conrad Road, as soon as 
>>>> I was in sight of the marsh, it was to the east of the road on the 
>>>> other side of the marsh. An hour later, it was still there in 
>>>> roughly the same spot.
>>>>
>>>> Although I didn't see any Piping Plovers (as I did on three 
>>>> occasions on the past month), I did see a medium-sized sandpiper on 
>>>> the beach that I couldn't identify. It had near-black legs. Too 
>>>> long-legged for semipalmated, and I think the colouring was a bit 
>>>> dark for the semi as well.
>>>>
>>>> Willet? While willets were numerous there, it was much too small.
>>>>
>>>> White-rumped sandpiper? Maybe. The white rump, and common white wing 
>>>> markings were conspicuous in flight.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone?
>>>>
>>>> Also in the marsh behind the beach were four Green-wwinged Teal.
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>> Bob Lindsay
>>>> Dartmouth
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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