Parker River NWR
9/9/2001

The highlight of the day was this Northern Wheatear,

photographed in the morning through my spotting scope
from the North Pool overlook,

a very snappy bird indeed.

Here's my only shot of the tail pattern.

At mid-day we found a nice bright juvenile American Golden Plover
at the Old Pines, but the atmospherics were getting pretty bad.

Finally, at the Newburyport WW Treatment Plant, we had a
close comparison of plumages/ages of dowitchers,

along with a Pectoral Sandpiper, yellowlegs, peeps, and

this molting juvenile Dunlin.

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