{"id":1779,"date":"2021-09-11T04:32:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T08:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2023-08-24T11:56:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:56:57","slug":"friday-september-10-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/friday-september-10-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, September 10, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Temp in the 50s, mostly cloudy, wind WSW 15-20 mph<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not a single shorebird on the Clam Lagoon Peninsula this morning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But wait! There’s more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rock Sandpipers are now in their resplendent winter plumage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rock Sandpiper, Sweeper Channel, September 10, 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The first time I saw one like this, I thought it was a Purple Sandpiper…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After checking the usual spots this morning, I made it up to Clam Lagoon around 10:30. I headed out to the peninsula only to be greeted with no birds!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I continued around the lagoon, hit all of the usual spots, finding nothing new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually I made it back up to the lagoon around 3 PM, but I was totally beat. So I set my timer to 20 minutes and took a nap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aah, that felt better!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I grabbed my camera and trundled back out the peninsula. I got out past the bend. No birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started to walk back when in flew a small flock of shorebirds. It was 5 Westerns and the Red-necked Stint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then a few more. Then a few more, until we were back to the Western flock of 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I looked up and then saw that the Sanderlings had also flown in, but were farther up the shoreline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As yesterday, the Westerns couldn’t care less that I was there and again walked right up to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Westerns moved around a bit, occasionally flying 20-30 yards to a new feeding spot and then maybe back again. As I was observing them, I noticed that the stint was a “picker” and the Westerns were “probers.” The stint would occasionally probe and the Westerns would occasionally pick, but more often than not, the Westerns probed and the stint picked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I then heard a different call note as another bird flew in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Mongolian Plover! (I know, I know, it’s Lesser Sand-Plover, but Mongolian sounds SO much better).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lesser Sand-Plover, Clam Lagoon, September 10, 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lesser Sand-Plover, Clam Lagoon, September 10, 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yes, these are pictures of the same bird. One with the light behind me and the other with the light behind the bird! I have a similar set of photos of a Hudsonian Godwit near home. One photo is brown, the other gray. Totally due to lighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not a bad way to end the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabi and Michelle arrive tomorrow. More eyes and ears…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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