On Oct. 19 Kathleen McGinley and I found the juvenile Solitary Sandpiper at the Grand Junction Wildlife Area (GJWA). We had great looks through a scope at 40 yards, and the overall brown tones and buffy spotting on the upper parts was quite evident (as opposed to the colder, darker tones and white spotting on the eastern subspecies *solitairia)*. This bird is the western subspecies *cinnamomea *as identified by Tony Leukering from a photo taken by JoAnn Potter Riggle on 30 Sep 2015.
I first saw the bird on 23 Sep 2015, and identified it as a juvenile Solitary Sandpiper. This juvenile bird has been seen a number of times by various birders in the last month, but certainly not on every trip to the GJWA. The latest fall date reported in Western Colorado is 4 Oct. Looked for the bird today with no luck, but did see the Black Phoebe fly catching from the brush pile in the pond. Didn't see the Black Phoebe yesterday, Mike Henwood Grand Junction Mesa County -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAL4Vespkhx4%3DN5bU9f-mSwp434JXc13yvMgiDPemq2Ui8z%2BXmQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
