I now believe that the peep I had at Myers this morning was a WESTERN SANDPIPER. Although the bird disappeared before I could get bino on it (it was flying by), I did record its flight call, a series of short warbles at around 3,500 Hz. As soon as I got home I compared it with all of the peep calls from the PDA Solutions guide - and did not find it. Since then I have had a chance to look further and discover that it is a good match for the Western's calls in the Stokes guide - and also a good match for McCaulay #49706 from Bill Evans.
I wish I had come to that conclusion earlier and spent more time looking for the bird - an alerting others. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: judykeil*bobmcguire To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 8:34 AM Subject: Myers BB Plover A Black-bellied Plover was still on the spit at Myers at 7am this morning along with one unidentified peep that took off before I could get a good look at it. Bob McGuire 46 Whitted Road, Ithaca 256 0460 [email protected] -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Temporary archive: http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
