Date: 8/22/25 10:20 pm From: Zane Pickus via groups.io <zanep987...> Subject: [centralvalleybirds] Little Stint at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area; shorebirding highlights
Hi all,
Tonight while shorebirding at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, Chris Dong found a LITTLE STINT!! This faded adult was mixed in with roughly 400 peeps in a rapidly drying field near Parking Lot C. Viewing may be difficult in the morning but I would recommend parking at Lot C and walking southeast along the levees to a point where you can view the spot where the bird was seen, which is roughly here:
38.537224, -121.619571
In other shorebirding news, the YBWA has been truly excellent this fall, with extensive habitat created by the flooding of summer fallow fields attracting thousands of birds daily. Highlights thus far, aside from the Little Stint, have included:
- adult Sanderling, 7/27/2025, found by Julian Johnson - juv Franklin's Gull, 8/19/2025, found by Joshua Greenfield - multiple Solitary Sandpipers - over a dozen Semipalmated Sandpipers
A full description and photos of the stint will be posted on eBird soon, as well as submitted to the California Bird Records Committee. Pending acceptance, this would represent the second Yolo County record, with the first from the City of Davis Wetlands in July, 2011, found by Todd Easterla.
Best of luck to those who head out in the coming days!
