Color reference for the Common Ringed Plover leg color - the bird’s legs
are paler / less intense, but this should provide a good mental search
image for leg color amongst hundreds of duller legged semipalmated Plovers
(as there were today with the CRPL candidate). See below - plus a
screenshot of the bird below that (from Logan Kahle’s video):
Screenshot from Logan Kahle’s video:
Zac Denning
On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM Zac Denning via groups.io <zdenning1=
<gmail.com...> wrote:
> It’s apparently gone now (as of 12:15pm today), but the plover continued
> today from 10:30am at the south end of Yosemite Slough, accessed via the
> end of Yosemite Ave (and by traversing mudflat & rip rap along the south
> side, just past a small protruding section of fencing).
>
> Just in case this location is favored again in the future:
> The bird was at around (37.7234693, -122.3853008) today, in the vicinity
> of the second white pole from the west, staying mostly on the south side of
> that pole, and ranging 15 feet to either side. Cal Walters, who was
> arriving as I left, reported it present at 12:04 on Telegram, before it
> flew off at 12:15 (it sounds like flying to the north?).
>
> For those looking for it going forward, here are some features that helped
> our group locate it amongst the sizable flock of Semipalmated Plovers:
> ——-
> 1) look for a bird that has a dusky / muddy-colored forehead patch. This
> will eliminate most of the similar looking semis right off the bat.
> 2) look for almost entirely dark sides of the face - with the
> cheek/auriculars blacker than the rest of the dark brown head.
> 3) look for legs that are noticeably brighter orange than surrounding
> semis - at least the parts not covered in mud. The leg color is somewhat
> like the orange you’d find on CandyCorn candies (see image below)
> 4) make sure the blackish color of the cheeks extends downward over the
> corner of the mouth (which narrows the width of the white area of the upper
> throat).
> 4) make sure the breast band is both fairly thick (though this changes in
> apparent thickness with different posture), *and* bulges at the sides
> (closer to the flanks), where the breast band is noticeably thicker.
>
> I hope that helps - good luck!
>
> Zac Denning
> Albany
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM Ethan Monk via groups.io <z.querula=
> <gmail.com...> wrote:
>
>> A bit far but what looks decent for the CRPL candidate at the east end of
>> Yosemite Ave (by Yosemite x Ingalls) at 825.
>>
>> Ethan Monk
>>
>>
>
>
