Rare sighting of Wood Sandpiper draws birders to Eugene, Ore

Someone finally contacted the newspaper after this bird was first spotted a couple weeks ago.



http://www.registerguard.com/web/news/545282//story.csp

And here's a video.

http://rgweb.registerguard.com/video/

This message was edited Oct 9, 2008 8:21 AM

That's incredible tiger! Thanks for posting it.

Going to see it yourself?

I've seen plenty of Wood Sandpipers over the years ;-)

Resin

Wow, look at all those spotting scopes. I'd look silly out there with my little camera. Siberia to Africa… hmm, definitely off course!

I probably won't be going up there. I don't have enough power for images, and I don't want to deal with the duck/goose hunters. And I'm not sure if OBOL is still assigning car watchers or not. There's been a real problem there w/ break ins, and theft of catalytic converters. I couldn't afford that kind of loss.