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--001a11c14c24c0d2de0505cd35f5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 As high tide approached at Horton Landing this morning, I found a single Semipalmated Sandpiper. I always get interested in single birds like this, "just in case", so I set about photographing it. As I did that, I was amazed to see that it had a flag. I've photographed about 20 flagged birds now but you are always picking them out of several hundred birds, and never this late in the season. Eventually, I found four more SESA at Horton so there were five there today. This is normal as I see single digit numbers of this one into the last week of October. Of course this bird is an adult, which makes it later re the norm. It was flagged on January 24, 2013 at Coroa dos Ovos, Maranhao, Brazil. This would be David Mizrahi's NJ Audubon project. I obtained as good a photo as any I've had with flagged birds. http://rickwhitman.smugmug.com/Nature/Birds-October-December-2014/i-GCJqwhc/A It appears that this bird is missing some primary wing feathers, so perhaps it survived a meeting with a Peregrine Falcon. That does happen. However, it can fly, at least locally, and was not out in Hurricane Gonzalo, so perhaps it has a future. Rick Whitman --001a11c14c24c0d2de0505cd35f5 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">As high tide approached at Horton Landing this morning, I = found a single Semipalmated Sandpiper. I always get interested in single bi= rds like this, "just in case", so I set about photographing it. A= s I did that, I was amazed to see that it had a flag. I've photographed= about 20 flagged birds now but you are always picking them out of several = hundred birds, and never this late in the season. Eventually, I found four = more SESA at Horton so there were five there today. This is normal as I see= single digit numbers of this one into the last week of October. Of course = this bird is an adult, which makes it later re the norm. It was flagged on = January 24, 2013 at Coroa dos Ovos, Maranhao, Brazil. This would be David M= izrahi's NJ Audubon project. I obtained as good a photo as any I've= had with flagged birds.<div><br></div><div><a href=3D"http://rickwhitman.s= mugmug.com/Nature/Birds-October-December-2014/i-GCJqwhc/A">http://rickwhitm= an.smugmug.com/Nature/Birds-October-December-2014/i-GCJqwhc/A</a><br></div>= <div><br></div><div>It appears that this bird is missing some primary wing = feathers, so perhaps it survived a meeting with a Peregrine Falcon. That do= es happen. However, it can fly, at least locally, and was not out in Hurric= ane Gonzalo, so perhaps it has a future.</div><div><br></div><div>Rick Whit= man</div></div> --001a11c14c24c0d2de0505cd35f5--
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