Birder’s Notebook: Lesser Yellowlegs –– a long-legged loudmouth

Birder’s Notebook: Lesser Yellowlegs –– a long-legged loudmouth

By Kate Persons The lesser yellowlegs is a character. This svelte, graceful shorebird atop disproportionally long, with bright orangey-yellow legs is typically found in forest wetlands, and not so often around Nome. So when a friend told me there was a family of yellowlegs feeding at a pond on the edge of town, I went for a visit. Yellowlegs are renowned for the incessant, blaring racket they make in defense of their nests and young. In 1929, b…