Solitary Sandpiper

Description
8 1/2". A small dark sandpiper with dark olive legs, speckled upperparts, white tail barred with black, and prominent eye ring. Flight is shallow-like. No white wing stripe, as seen in Spotted Sandpiper.
Voice
A high-pitched peet-weet or peet-weet-weet; more shrill then call of Spotted Sandpiper.
Habitat
Ponds,bogs,wet swampy places, and woodland streams.
Nesting
4 pale green or buff eggs, thickly spotted with gray and brown, in deserted tree nest of thrushes, jays, or blackbirds.
Other
As its name suggests, this bird is most often seen by itself, a single migrant foraging along the margin of a wooded pond or stream. It is wary and, when approached, will spring quickly into the air, uttering its ringing call notes, and darts away. In the spring, most Solitary Sandpipers seem to migrate north through Central America, and there an observer amy be surprised to see flocks of several dozen feeding in flooded fields.
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