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From: Justin Hite and Leigh Bernachi
Date: 31 Jul 2008
Time: 17:57:10 -0400
Remote Name: 65.241.2.253
Semipalmated in back on left; Western in profile on right. Click photo to
enlarge.
We found a single Semipalmated Sandpiper among a group of 16 Western Sandpipers this morning at Rush Creek Delta. Very short stubby black bill, black legs, strong white eyebrow, evenly brown scaled back, and a total lack of rufous in the plumage (all the Westerns still had some rufous feathers). The Ruddy Turnstone was first seen at the Rush Delta two days ago, and it's still hanging out on the rockier sandbars. In total there were 13 species of scolopacids: 1 Long-billed Curlew, 1 Marbled Godwit, 13 Willet, 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 1 Wilson's Phalarope, 14 Red-necked Phalarope, 4 Long-billed Dowitcher, 2 Short-billed Dowitcher, 25 Western Sandpiper, 3 Least Sandpiper, and 10 Spotted Sandpiper.
