[mou] odd shorebird

[dan&erika]

Anthony--Is there some way to share these images with the listserv? (Anthony
sent me a copy of my photo compared to several photos of Reeves--my bird
looks very much like an adult Reeve.)  Although the replies to my e-mail
were almost uniformly of the opinion that the bird is a Pectoral Sandpiper,
it does much more like a Reeve to me.  Only you (I assume) and Steve Weston
replied that it might be a Reeve.  Nick Anich sent this photo of a Pectoral,
http://www.pbase.com/johanstenlund/image/72000268 , but even in this plumage
the demarcation between the dark breast and white belly is much sharper than
on my bird.  dan tallman

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Anthony Hertzel <axhertzel at sihope.com>wrote:

>
> On Aug 30, 2008, at 12:27 P.M., dan&erika wrote:
>
> Hi All--Yesterday, 29 Aug, Erika and I drove down to the River Bend Nature
> Center in Faribault, Rice Co., to check out the Stilt Sandpiper.  I took
> photographs and got around to "developing" them late morning the next day
> (today),
>
> What do you make of this photo?
> http://www.northern.edu/tallmand/dat/misc/stiltmystery.jpg
> At the time I thought I was taking a photo of one of a few Stilt Sandpipers
> on the pond.  But the bill looks way too short for a Stilt Sandpiper.  The
> base of the bill is also an odd pink color.  The bird is vaguely colored
> like a Ruff, but the breast is not plain like a Ruff.
>
> A second photo shows what may be the mystery bird behind an obvious Stilt
> Sandpiper.
> http://www.northern.edu/tallmand/dat/misc/stiltmystery2.jpg
> Note the much more obvious eyeline on the Stilt Sandpiper and its grayer
> coloration.  Is the mystery sandpiper just an immature Stilt Sandpiper?
>
> I will be interested to hear any and all opinions.
>
> dan
>
>
>
> - - -
>
> Anthony Hertzel -- *axhertzel at sihope.com*
>
>
>


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