Spotted Sandpiper

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Michael May

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May 4, 2026, 3:45:32 PM (6 days ago) May 4

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Yesterday, at a favorite little dammed (not damned) creek/wooded area on the Cherokee/Plymouth Co border, I saw a robin-sized bird fly away from me down the creek and just beyond the reach of my binoculars. I waited it out and it finally flew back to the dam closer to me and my heart sank to see a shorb/peep - they are watery LBJs to me... and then it started boogey-ing! A lifer for me: a spotted sandpiper.

Lots of yellow-rumped warblers and kinglets as well. And one brave raccoon.

The day before, @ SE Wildwood Park, Merlin helped w/IDing shorbs on the west pond: Greater & lesser yellowlegs, & another lifer for me, a solitary sandpiper.