Belatedly, I wanted to note that when I found it last week, it was happily lurking amidst the gulls on the point. It was completely hidden by them as they are 3x bigger than it and when clustered together made a complete wall. Then, it is also the same color as the beach rocks. It has been animatedly foraging so watch for moving beach rocks!
After scanning the gulls a couple times, then looking away for a while, then scanning them again, lo and behold, I saw a ‘not gull’ head pop up briefly and knew I had found it. A while later, they flew off and gave nice scope views (it didn’t come as close as for some other observers and I didn’t want to fright it off, so I stayed 50’ away). So, keep trying, but it has been there for a while and may have finally beefed up for the next leg of migration. ChrisP ______________________ Chris Pelkie Information/Data Manager; IT Support Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 On Oct 29, 2014, at 10:09, Carol Keeler <carolk...@adelphia.net> wrote: > Although it sounds as if it has departed, if anyone goes to Myers and > relocates the Purple Sandpiper, would they please post it. This is the first > free day I've had to come down to see it. > Thanks! > > Sent from my iPad > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
