I mean, really. Too many "Siberian" i.e. Eurasian birds have been taking a wrong turn this year, and keep showing up in California. (By the way, birders in Hungary, Holland, and Hong Kong go running when an American bird like a Franklin's Gull or a Baird's Sandpiper shows up)
First there was the Bean Goose, then the Brown Shrike. Then the Mongolian Plover, then the Little Stint. And now, of course, your standard-issue Hungarian bird (as is the Little Stint): a Curlew Sandpiper. He should be spending the winter in Australia.
To make matters worse, while we're staring across the Imperial Beach salt works through our scopes at the Curlew Sandpiper, through the heat haze, I am reading the email about the Spotted Redshank in Del Norte County.
Ten bucks says that one shows up in the L.A. River on August 5th.
Curlew Sandpiper, Caldris ferruginea (second bird from the left, to the right of the Red Knot)
26 July 2011
Imperial Beach, San Diego California
Nikon Coolpix 10 Megapixel taken through Brunton 80 mm spotting scope
There's only one thing to do after seeing a Curlew Sandpiper in Imperial Beach: go splash in the surf, then eat.
"Dada, is he dead? He won't talk to me."
Then, of course, it's time for desert:
"Hey, look! They named it after me!"
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