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Subject: Juv.  Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Sept. 5, 1999, South
          Beach, MA
From: Jim Barton <redwingatfp1986(AT)COMCAST.NET>
Date: 1 Sep 2010 2:58pm

    Hello.  I studied a stunning juvenile Sharp-tailed Sandpiper roosting 
among Black-bellied Plovers and Semi Plovers on a northerly flat at South 
Beach, Chatham, MA for about 10 minutes on September 5, 2009.   All the 
birds flew south, so I saw the bird in flight as well.

    Continuing south myself,  I encountered a birding group moving north.  I 
described the bird and asked whether they might have seen the STSP.  The 
leader responded that, oh, yes, they seen a shorebird that someone had died 
yellow.  She seemed very sure of herself.  I didn't think it worthwhile to 
continue the conversation.

    I alerted the usual suspects and returned the next day, but was unable 
to rediscover the bird.

    Yours,

    Jim Barton Jim Barton
    Cambridge, MA

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