Bartramia longicauda

Four Years Ago Today I Found A Rare Upland Sandpiper

By Mia McPherson|August 31st, 2020|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Rarities, Upland Sandpipers, Utah|Tags: Bartramia longicauda, calling, chattering, hills, perched, power pole, rare, rarity, records committee, sagebrush steppe, sandpiper, sandpipers, shorebirds, sighting, summer, Upland Sandpiper|

Four years ago today stopping for a Golden Eagle perched on a power pole in Box Elder County would net me a rare Upland Sandpiper sighting because of the sandpiper's chattering call.

My Rare Upland Sandpiper Sighting in Utah

By Mia McPherson|September 1st, 2016|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Rarities, Upland Sandpipers, Utah|Tags: Bartramia longicauda, calling, chattering, perched, rare, rarity, records committee, sandpiper, sandpipers, shorebirds, sighting, Upland Sandpiper|

I got to find, point out, and photograph a rare Upland Sandpiper in Utah well out of its normal migration route and range, what a day. What a find