It's probably a spotted sandpiper. It's never a good idea to go solely by
measurements such as total length in the field.

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 2:47 PM Nancy Cusumano <nancycusuman...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> There have been so many public osprey nests failing this year - seems like
> many of the nest cam nests have had one tragedy or another. Does anyone
> know how the many local osprey nests are doing? Candace can you give an
> update?  Thanks.
>
> Second question - we are kayakers and always see a small shorebird along
> the river shores. Merlin tells me it is a spotted sandpiper, but my husband
> says they are smaller than the 7" given in books and AllAboutBirds.
> Without a photo (super hard to get them as they are moving and so are we)
> can anyone confirm this is what we are seeing? It doesn't seem like there
> are any other good options, as Solitary is out of area for us, right?
>
> Thanks for whatever assistance you can give!
>
> Nancy
>
>
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