Thanks to those who posted Buff-breasted Sandpipers yesterday. It got me out looking in Douglas yesterday evening and my last stop (Douglas 15 and 56) there were mud flats with 3-400 shorebirds present. While I was there a flock of 23 Buff-breasted Sandpipers flew in and landed on a mud peninsula in the middle of shallow water, looking decidedly out of place. In ten or 15 minutes 22 of them took off, flying NW. The other stayed and fed for about another 15 minutes. I did not see it take off. Also present were Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Semi-Plover, Least, Semi, Pectoral, Stilt, and at least one White-Rumped Sandpipers, a Wilson's Snipe, a Wilson's Phalarope and some Bairds Sandpipers. Also present were a family of Soras feeding on bulrush seeds. Also had a Nashville Warbler yesterday earlier in the day.
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