I've been getting down to the Sheridan Sewage ponds lately to check on the
fall shorebird migration.
July 7
1 Black phoebe
3 Least sandpipers
July 14 w Harry Fuller
1 Black phoebe
20 Least sandpipers
3 Western sandpipers
July 20 w Tom Love, Russ Namitz
(when I asked permission, Darry Davis told me he was on sick leave and I
should ask his second-in-command. Later we met Steve, and he told us Daryl
had serious lung cancer.)
1 Blue-winged teal
2 Green heron
July 28 w Russ Namitz
2 Green heron
2 Least sandpipers
1 Spotted sandpiper
3 Long-billed Dowitchers
1 calling Wrentit - first for this site
1 Y-b chat
1 Bonaparte's gull
Aug 4
1 Greater yellowlegs
1 Spotted sandpiper
1 Least sandpiper
7 Western sandpiper
3 Red-necked phalaropes - first of the season
When I called Steve today, he told me Daryl passed away yesterday. He had
planned to retire this fall.
It is through the permission of Daryl that we got photos of the Pomeraine
jaeger at the Sheridan sewage ponds. It was his permission that let me find
the Long-tailed Duck that graced our Christmas count last year. There were
many more good birds we enjoyed because of him. He was a good man. May he
rest in peace.
Paul Sullivan
