This AM, a single Buff-breasted Sandpiper was observed actually foraging
knee-deep in shallow water along the edge of B Pool @ Union Slough NWR,
behavior I've never seen before. It was picking some sort of bits off
the surface of the water as it walked along for several minutes. Buffies
always look like they're trying to avoid getting their feet dirty when
they walk on land, but this little guy appeared to be wearing gloppy
black mud galoshes on his normally golden-yellow feet. Something
eventually spooked it (something always does!), and then it ran back up
on the shore to the green stuff where it seemed to be more comfortable.
Matthew Kenne
Algona, Iowa
[email protected]
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