[wisb] Re: BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
- From: "Bob Domagalski" <rcd2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bhaunts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 22:08:35 -0500
-- three spring records
1. May 8, 1973 - Ozaukee, Thomas Bintz
2. May 10, 1974 - St. Croix, Craig A. Faanes
3. May 29, 1981 - Door, Steve Thiessen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daryl Tessen" <bhaunts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 2:06 PM
Subject: [wisb] BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
> On the way over to the 8 o'clock Kirtland's Warbler trip I stopped
> along Cty D and 5th Ave (in Adams co, about 5-6 miles east of the
> meeting spot). There were over 100 Sandhill Cranes in the field and
> some shorebirds in a few small flooded spots at the ne junction of
> the two roads. Almost immediately I noticed a shorebird that had the
> jizz of the BB Sandpiper. Quickly getting it in my window scope it
> was a breeding plumaged Buff-breasted Sandpiper!!! Jim Otto and his
> wife were there so the three of us were getting great looks at it,
> when other birders drove up. We spent about a half hour enjoying it
> with our binocs and scopes before a thundershower drove us back to
> our vehicles and to the meeting spot of the warbler.
> Birders on the first warbler trip were informed and they relocated
> it. Many of us on the second trip went back out there---after great
> views of the Kirtland's, plus several others singing---and were able
> to relocate it. It was still there in early afternoon. There is a
> total of 8 shorebirds there that included 2 White-rumped Sands, 2
> Pectoral Sands, many Semip. Sands, Dunlins, Killdeer, 6 Semip.
> Plovers and a Gr Yellowlegs, in addition to the BB Sandpiper.
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> This is one of the few spring sightings for this species. Hey Bob,
> how many spring records are there for the Buff-br. Sandpiper? Thanks.
>
> Good luck if you go. Hard telling how long it will linger.
> Daryl Tessen
> Appleton, WI
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