{"id":379,"date":"2013-09-14T05:20:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T09:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/friday-september-13-2013\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T12:40:00","slug":"friday-september-13-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/friday-september-13-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, September 13, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lifer! Lifer!<\/p>\n

Temp in the 50s, mostly sunny, west wind 10-20 mph.<\/p>\n

After the usual Sweeper Cove\/Creek\/Feeders route, we headed up to White Alice (a hill west of town where the communication towers are located) and picked up a number of Snow Buntings.<\/p>\n

We then headed to Clam Lagoon, where I decided to walk the marsh edge. I kicked out a number of Pectoral and Sharp-tailed sandpipers, some of whom landed on the flats, fed awhile, and then flew back to the marsh.<\/p>\n

About halfway up, Barb called me about a few birds closer to her position up at the northwest corner of the tidal flats. She had three Pectorals and a peep and possibly the Mongolian Plover (I know! Its called Lesser Sand-Plover now, but Mongolian is way cooler!). Barb has nicknamed the plover “dumpy” as that is how it looks when first seen through the scope. I was still too far away to see them. They flew off and then appeared to return, but now it was a different mix of birds. There were still three Pectorals, but now there were two peeps–a small one and a larger one.<\/p>\n

I finally got close enough to start photographing them and trying to identify them through my binos. The larger peep was an obvious Baird’s Sandpiper–one of the easier peeps to identify.<\/p>\n

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Baird’s Sandpiper, Clam Lagoon, Sept 13, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n

The other (smaller) peep looked gray. As I got closer, I saw it had yellow legs! Now I new it was a Temminck’s Stint! A lifer! I photographed the heck out of it, and we studied the photos very carefully when we got back, and confirmed my initial impression. I know from past experience how faulty field observations and first impressions can be. However, the photos confirmed it as a juvenile Temmincks Stint.<\/p>\n

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Temminck’s Stint, Clam Lagoon, Sept 13, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Temminck’s Stint, Clam Lagoon, Sept 13, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n

I circled around the stint and headed out to the peninsula. Shortly after I rounded the bend, I saw movement ahead. It was the Mongolian Plover. This time, not so wary. The photos I got are still not Nat Geo quality, but much better than yesterday.<\/p>\n

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Mongolian Plover, Clam Lagoon, Sept 13, 2013<\/p><\/div>\n

We also saw a Red-necked Grebe today to bring our trip list to 51.<\/p>\n

Not a bad start to our second week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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