Article source for : MBSP Purple Sandpiper 3-Dec-2006
"From":http://www.rarebird.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1663&PN=2 the TNA message board ...
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Brian Zwiebel just called and he and Laura are looking at a Purple Sandpiper at the Maumee Bay State Park beach (8:15am Sunday December 3). Thought I would get the word out asap, as this is a very rare treat here in NW Ohio. They are looking at the bird at the east end of the beach, and it is on one of the rock breakwalls there.
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Brian posted an update and photo:
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We crawled around on the icy rocks at water line to get an angle for the shot. After taking a few images we retreated and left the bird resting. There doesn't appear to be much in the way of Purple Sandpiper forage as the rocks are pretty bare. I suggest the bird probably finished resting then went in look of food.
Other interesting birds in the park today include a couple of Snow Buntings, two Greater White-fronted Geese, Eastern Phoebe, Black-crowned Night Heron and a Common Goldeneye that landed in the inland lake.
I had been seeing a few E. Meadowlarks but none today.
Yesterday in the back yard I had the Red-breasted Nuthatch, a Fox Sparrow, two Rusty Blackbirds and two Golden-crowned Kinglets.
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