More on White-rumped Sandpipers

[Joel Beyer <twobirders at juno dot com>]

For those of you who are thinking of looking for these birds, you should
know that a section of the auto tour route beyond stop #2 (observation
tower) is closed to vehicle traffic due to construction work.  There was
no construction today, so we went ahead and drove the quarter mile to
stop #3 (only after seeing someone else do it, of course!).  Only
vehicles were banned, so presumably you could walk it.  The White-rumped
Sandpipers were feeding in the shallow water and vegetated mud flats on
the right (west) side of the road, along with a few stilts and
phalaropes.  Of the 9 birds, 8 were in breeding plumage and one was
nearly there.  The construction doesn't seem to be in the immediate area
of the birds, so hopefully they'll hang around for awhile.

Joel Beyer
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