Posted by Paul Bithorn on August 15, 2016 at 22:39:53
While scouting for the TAS Everglades Agricultural Area in Palm Beach County with Kevin Sarsfield, an adult Baird's Sandpiper was seen on Sunday, August 14, 2016, feeding in a mud puddle in a recently flooded sugarcane field on CR 827 - Bolles Canal in Palm Beach County. It was larger than the adjacent Least Sandpiper and had a straight black bill and black legs, a white eye-line, finely streaked breast, white throat, long primary extensions, buffy color tones throughout and white-feather-edging on the scapulars. It fed in a horizontal position about 20 yards north of the road offering great scope views. Other notable highlights were Fulvous and Black-bellied Whistling Ducks, Pectoral Sandpiper and Black and Gull-billed Terns on Gladeview Road and 6 male Yellow Warblers on Brown's Farm Road. A total of 60 species were seen including 12 shorebird species and five year-birds. Life is good..............................as we hoisted a tasty Trappist Belgian Ale as our celebratory libation.