[NatureNS] mystery sandpiper

Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:13:57 -0300
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Lindsay" <rhlindsay@accesswave.ca>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] mystery sandpiper


> 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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