I just returned from Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware. I don't
know how to report birds to the Delaware listserv so I'm reporting the really
rare good bird I saw today from this favorite birding place of mine to the Va
listserv. Anyway the bird I saw was a probable LITTLE STINT! I called this bird
a semipalmated sandpiper until I saw orange at the beginning of the bird's
bill, that is at the lores. I noticed something else about the bird. The bird
had a bold brown striped necklace that appeared to completely go around the
bird's neck, unlike that with the semipalmated sandpiper, in which the necklace
doesn't go completely around. I have a video of the bird and I have one good
image of it that I will try to upload onto the computer, but it was so hard to
videotape because it was moving around so much. I don't know if this is a clue
to the little stint's behavior, if it moves around in a really speedy motion,
but it was doing this behavior. This bird was at Raymond Pool and it was right
next to the observation tower off to the right. This shorebird was the closest
shorebird I saw to the observation tower. It was moving in patches of grass in
the water. Anyway, if someone could forward this report over to the Delaware
birds listserv, that would be nice.
Dan
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