[birdky] Re: RPT: KY 739 Transient Lake-Pond and other Logan birds today

    Before Mark arrived at 739 pond, a flock of Semi-palmated Sandpipers and 
Semi-palmated Plovers  walked up and nearly surrounded me. After taking 
advantage of having such closeby birds for picture-taking, I began scanning the 
flock with my naked eye and saw the female Wilson's Phalarope. At the same 
moment I comprehended the phalarope, the flock took flight. When it settled 
back down, the phalarope was nowhere to be seen. It began to rain. I gave up 
relocating it and was about to leave when Mark arrived. While waiting for him 
to walk down, I scanned some more and picked up the phalarope again. 
    As we both stood watching, the whole flock began walking up near us again 
and we picked up 3 phalaropes. As usual, I was about out of memory. I had an 
extra memory card this time but did not want to change it while standing in mud 
in a light rain. I got one  blurry shot of the female with its head ducked in 
the water and another with a drop of water on my camera lens.
    I think Mark meant to say Semi-palmated instead of Wilson's Plover.
Frank Lyne frank@xxxxxxxxxxx near Dot in Logan County

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