A couple images of the Spotted Sandpiper found by John Dennehy on Saturday,
April 14, about 4:40pm.
http://www.pbase.com/nrothschild/more_birding
I was standing at the fence near the Gazebo in the park. I first spotted
the bird on the mud flats on the far end (toward Greenspring Ave). The
bird started walking very quickly along the shore, walking right past me.
It walked so fast (and somewhat erratically) that most of my images were
somewhat motion blurred. I then tried to get ahead of it because it was now
in the late day light. I moved twice, a short distance, and it flew the
same distance in order to thwart me. The 3rd time it flushed to the other
side (toward the strip center) to the muddy shore line where it sat quietly
for a while. It made it clear that that was all I was to get :-).
Another birder came along a few minutes later and told me that he also saw
it yesterday (but not sure what it was), and saw it fly over to the rocky
south side.
In other news, I spent most of the day staking out a small terrace in my
back yard salted with bird seed to shoot a fairly elusive Fox Sparrow.
While I was doing that I noticed a pair of White-breasted Nuthatches
investigating a few cavities. After one of them tooted almost continuously
for at least 5 minutes or so, they then proceeded to start bringing in
material to build a nest. Mostly tree bark chips, but also some soft
material. So I have a new spring project :-). I'll post a link on the
Facebook page when I get done with those. Never seen that before.
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