With a visit to the Salton Sea in the company of Gary Nunn and Guy McCaskie we have now seen all the possible species that we were expecting in the USA.
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The Salton Sea. |
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Tres amigos; Guy, Rick and Gary |
The list was finished off with an early finding of Stilt Sandpiper, followed by distant views of a Snowy Plover...
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Stilt Sandpipers |
and finishing with some excellent views of Lesser Yellowlegs...
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Lesser Yellowlegs |
in company with Greater Yellowlegs allowing for direct comparison.
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Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs with Long-billed Dowitchers and three
small Calidris waders, probably Western Sandpipers. |
We also saw a couple of Lesser yellowlegs having a set-to.
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Lesser Yellowlegs fighting |
Our thanks go to Gary who drove us to the Salton Sea setting off at 03:45 in the morning and a special thank you to Guy who volunteered to go with us to help us find what we were looking for. There is no-one who knows the Salton Sea and its birds better than Guy and without him we may have struggled to see all the species we did.
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American Avocets, Black-necked Stilts and Long-billed Dowitchers |
So the Wader Quest list now stands at 80 as we prepare to leave the USA. However, due to our good fortune in locating the birds we have a few days to relax, perhaps get more photographs of the local waders, do some gentle general birding and we hope to be giving a talk about Wader Quest and the Spoon-billed Sandpiper captive breeding programme to a group of local birders which includes some illustrious names in addition to Guy.
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