FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Re: BKY:Spotted Sandpipers, etc.

[Stephen Stedman <sstedman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have not seen what anyone else has said in respone to this note, but I would
seriously doubt that the young were migrants; almost certainly you have a
local breeding record.  What have others said?

Steve

roseanna wrote:

> A check of Clifty Pond this evening turned up 4 Spotted Sandpipers. At least 
> 3 were young birds with buffy/tannish edging on the wing coverts and at least 
> one bird had fluffy downy looking feathers sticking out the back of its head 
> with fluffy looking neck feathers. They had some odd looking long tail 
> feathers. Would juvs. be migrating this early or would they more likely have 
> hatched locally?
>
> 1 Henslow's Sparrow and several Grasshopper Sparrows on the neighbors farm.
>
> A Killdeer is brooding the third clutch at the end of our lane; I'm not sure 
> if its the same Killdeer. This one has 3 eggs.
>
> The young Coopers Hawks that hatched in our woods are all flying now; but at 
> least one needs a little work on its landing skills! There are at least 4 of 
> them.
>
> ~Roseanna Denton~
>
> roseanna@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Science Hill, Pulaski Co.
>
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