Date: 8/3/26 7:45 pm From: John Harris via groups.io <jhh.birder...> Subject: [SFBirds] A bit more on the banded Snowy Plover
Hi all, I reported a few days ago on a color-banded Snowy Plover photographed at Ocean Beach. Earlier this year, the bird was in Humboldt County. I reached out to Stephanie Stragier, a Cal Poly Humboldt grad student doing research up there and learned that this bird had two successful nesting attempts at a site near the South Jetty, at the entrance to Humboldt Bay. She was last seen there on July 25, five days before I encountered her at Ocean Beach. Given shorebird flight speeds in the 25-35 mph range, it's plausible that she might have made this flight in one night, or perhaps made a stopover in between. Stephanie will be presenting about her research at the Western Field Ornithologists annual conference in Ashland, Oregon, September 17-20. John Harris Oakdale, CA.
