I made a pilgrimage out to Hutchinson to see what I could see. I also was not
lucky with the western sandpiper. However, if you are looking for large
numbers of shorebirds and gulls as I was, Hutchinson is the place to go. The
following are to the best of my knowledge what I saw:
a whole lot of ring-billed gulls
baird's sandpiper
a huge raft of pelicans
many great egrets
lesser yellowlegs
least sandpiper (tons)
great blue herons
stilt sandpiper
kildeer (many)
house wren (along the shore in the trees)
franklin's gull (probably 10 or so)
mallards
yellow-rumped warblers
red phalarope (1 flying by - distinctive eye stripe was a dead give-away)
bonaparts gull (I got a good look at the all black bill)
pectoral sandpiper
semi-palmated plover
There were a number of gulls and shorebirds that were too far out for me to
identify without a scope. If anyone that does have a scope is thinking about
going out to Hutch, I'd be interested in joining them.
Good birding,
Ben Parke
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