[birding] Juv. Solitary Sandpiper at E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area, Benton Co.

[Joel Geier]

Hello folks,

The small shorebird contingent at E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area's Canal Pond
today included a juvenile SOLITARY SANDPIPER (with slightly
orangeish-yellow legs) along with a juvenile GREATER YELLOWLEGS, a few
KILLDEER and WILSON'S SNIPE, and about eight PEEPS that looked from a
distance to be Least Sandpipers. 

A RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was calling and flying around in the woods on the
south side of this pond, the first one I've seen or heard there since
last January.

I had a fleeting glimpse, then heard a few call notes from a
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER that was consorting loosely with the first
migrant YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS that I've seen this season (not a good
look but I think at least one was a MYRTLE WARBLER).

No Swainson's Thrushes heard in any of the usual thickets that they've
been using in migration.

Happy birding,
Joel

--
Joel Geier
Camp Adair area north of Corvallis