Ok, I finally got my Baird's...I think!? I took the kids down to the mudflats on the inside of Pine Point (Scarborough Marsh) at low tide this evening and there were bazillions of shorebirds all over the place. A few hundred semi-pal sandpipers, almost as many semi-pal plovers, 20+ Short-billed Dowitchers, 6 Willets, 15 Black-bellied Plovers just in the small area we were in. All but the SBDW and BBPL were indifferent to us walking through the muck. There were a half dozen clammers working as well and the peeps were even checking out the clammers' mounds for easy meals.
In the mix I noticed 2 semipalmated sandpipers that were markedly larger then all the others, but nearly identical in every other way (except that their bellies were very white and clear of streaking). One was observed as it flew and it had a dark rump just like the semis.
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