All, 



I am the "woman" who "claimed" to see the GSPL yesterday about noon. Actually, I am the woman who saw the GSPL about noon and am now claiming the sighting again. 



I first saw the bird on 05/16 after hearing about him at 10:30 PM the night before, having just returning from South FL. I went out to Huguenot  yesterday to see the Red Knots and the terns being reported. 



It was a glorious day with nice weather and lots of courtship and x rated behavior going on especially with the Royal Terns and Laughing Gulls. The REKN were gone but lots of other birds to enjoy. I had my scope on an Arctic Tern for about 15 or more minutes. 



Driving from the ocean side back toward the family beach, proceeding to the South along the cord grass area where the plovers are seen, I saw him. The tide was still fairly high. It had been high as I recall at 1050. He was on the other side of the rope barrier but close to it. I watched him for a minute or so. He was jerking around in an agitated fashion. He may have vocalized. I do not recall for sure. Then he flushed, flying to the North. Since I was sitting facing South, I did not follow him. I thought at the time that his brick red upper breast band look so beautiful in the  sunlight. I am surprised that he was not found again. After seeing a post yesterday from Jeff Bouton (sp?) which I gathered meant the bird was seen, I did not post my sighting. 



Good luck to those who are now and will be looking. 



Lenore McCullagh 

Orange Park 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Pranty " < billpranty @ HOTMAIL .COM> 
To: BRDBRAIN @ LISTSERV .ADMIN. USF . EDU 
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 8:27:28 PM GMT -05:00 Colombia 
Subject: [ BRDBRAIN ] Greater Sand-Plover 2009-05-26 -- Maybe ... and a Horned Lizarrd 

Good evening all, 

I stopped by Huguenot Memorial Park on my way to Fort Clinch State Park this afternoon. I arrived around 1430 and departed 2 hours later. The bird was not seen by anybody (there were 12-15 people looking) during that time, nor was it seen from 0800 to past 1100. 

The only potential sighting was around noon. I spoke with a fellow birder from Pittsburgh who had been there all day and he said that a woman (he didn't get her name but she had seen the bird before, so she's probably local) claimed that she saw the GSPL for about two minutes in the usual spot but then it "flew north." Neither of us knew exactly what that meant. 

An Arctic Tern was also reported in the same spot but was gone once the tide started dropping after noon. 

I found three adult male Painted Buntings in the park (none banded), including one just southwest of the restrooms/ Sharky's shack that Brian Ahern found more than a week ago. 

Finally, as I was exiting the park, I was stunned to see a Horned Lizard ( Phrynosoma spp ) sunning in the road. It had a very thick tail and backwards-facing spikes on its head. By the time I found an unflooded spot to park, the lizard had run into the dunes, so no photos. Huguenot Park seems a strange place for this exotic, but it was located between the picnic area and the campground, so somebody must have lost their pet ... 


Best regards, 

Bill Pranty 
Bayonet Point, Florida 








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