Date: 6/21/26 6:01 pm From: Michael Price via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Greater Yellowlegs
Hi tweets
Those Greater Yellowlegs are for sure the first southbound shorebirds of the summer. I spent nearly fifteen years monitoring shorebirds at the Iona Island settling ponds mostly as well as Boundary Bay from the northbound rush in April, through the May/June hiatus to the bitter end in November. Getting to know what birds loitered in the five or six weeks between migrations made the first southbound arrivals conspicuous. Usually the first southbound birds to arrive were the Yellowlegs, sometimes as early as June 18. Then the arrivals of adult Western, SemiSandpiper, Least in week 4 June. The first shorebird juveniles start showing up in Weeks 4-5 July, three to four weeks after the arrival of the adults. Everybody's pretty much gone by November.
Of course, there's waaayyy more to it but there's a very quick overview.
best wishes, m
Michael Price Vancouver BC Canada <loblollyboy...>
