My friend Steve Kingswood and I were scoping a flock of some 100 Stilt Sandpipers at the extreme southwest corner of Prewitt Reservoir today and noticed a few phalaropes which I assumed to be Wilson's because they had some buff and reddish on the back. But Steve was not satisfied that they were Wilson's. Later after a desultory and fruitless search for the Black-billed Cuckoo and warblers, we checked them out again, this time much closer and with the sun to our backs, and concluded that these were seven juvenile Red-necked Phalaropes. By this time of year, Wilson's would be very pale gray and white with no black patch in the eye and ear area. My shorebird ID skills are mediocre so I ask that any one out there this week check them out. One of the mysteries of migration is how first year juvies can find their way with no help from their parents.
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