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* > > > -- Dan or Erika Tallman Northfield, Minnesota http://danerika.googlepages.com/home http://picasaweb.google.com/danerika danerika at gmail.com ".... the best shod travel with wet feet" "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes ...."--Thoreau -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080831/4afa6011/attachment.html