After returning from
Crescent City yesterday I learned that another Bristle-thighed Curlew had been found 16 May by Les & Cindy
Lieurance and George Griffeth at Kehoe Beach. I had a class at Alviso this morning, 17 May, but elected to pick
up my son, Jeff and head out to Point Reyes this afternoon. We arrived about 3:30pm meeting other birders who were
leaving after having not seen the bird. It had reportedly been seen early in the morning.
However I did note the much more coarsely marked upperparts with the bright 
cinnamon-buff scalloping to the wing-coverts and scapulars. The
primary projection seemed shorter than on theCrescent City bird with only two visible primaries beyond the tertials.
The tertials were fresh, not worn as on the Crescent City bird, and showed clear buff scalloping on the fringes.
The head pattern was similar to the Crescent City bird with broad lateral crown stripes on either side of a narrow
median line and relatively faint dark eye stripes. However, I felt the median line was somewhat wider on this individual
than on the Crescent City bird. The supercilium and face were buffy and quite streaked. The underparts were buffy
with broad dark wedges on the side of the breast that did not extend to the flanks.
I thought the bird was slightly smaller than the adjacent Whimbrels, but the only way to pick out the bird from a distance was the obvious coarser (Brad Schram said "checkered") pattern to the upperparts. When I first saw the bird, I was able to see the bright cinnamon-colored tail with a few dark transverse bars. Legs and feet were gray.