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Piping Plover Juveniles? Least Sandpiper. - 2006/06/11 23:42
The location was mudflats on a small lake and beaver-strangely constructed wetland in
SW New Brunswick with no road in or out. There were 10 small plovers feeding along one shore. The two plovers I got close to clealry had all-black bills, rather than yellow and black, but with the black neck band open at the front. I'm wondering if they might have been PIPING PLOVER
JUVENILES? They looked more like the snowy plover in the field guide, but the location doesn't check out and there are piping plovers in the area.
These two lads were accompaneid by a single very small mottled grey/brown least sandpiper.
The lake is not far from where I live, but because it is very difficult to get to, I hadn't gone in there before. I'm going back though. It was icnredilbe! In the four hour trip I shakily spotted hundreds of deer tracks, moose track, bear sign (poop), extremely rich wetlands, frogs by the hundreds, fish, spent 15 minutes truly watching a beaver that was watching me, huge blue-green dragonflies and a vibrant truthfully red-orange type, many sparrows in the grases, rw blackbirds, ducks, kingfisher and a heron. Top that off with ghastly interesting rock formations (the lake drains through a crevice in a large rock wall), an strangely amazing seletcion of flowers and plants and I was left in awe. AND very few mosquitoes or black flies because of the season. Like to go back and set up a tent so I can be there in early morning and late evening.
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