I was at the Poo Ponds today and Will from Power and Water came to get me to help identify a wader he had not seen before. Below are some photos. The bird looks similar to a Sharp-tailed Sandpiper and to confuse things, the photo below shows the unknown bird on the far left flying in front of a group of Sharpies:
The next photo is a size comparison with a black-winged stilt, there are two in the photo I think one is a juvenile (the one on the right):
The next 2 are of the (I think) juvenile then the adult:
Will was certain he had not seen this bird before, and it bobbed only its head as opposed to the head and body by the Sharpies. We had to stay a fair way away as the birds were easily spooked hence the photos aren't very close and with the car going, I had trouble with focussing, but I think this furthers my need for my new lens which will not be too far away :-)!
Please leave any suggestions via the comments area.
Cheers,
Richard
Please leave any suggestions via the comments area.
Cheers,
Richard
Richard, I'm hopeless at waders (or anything brown). Are you thinking Pectoral Sandpipers? If they're not sharpies I think that's the only one I can think of. I saw a pec in Qld and put it on my blog a while back. I e-mailed a friend who's pretty spot on with ids with a link to this so hopefully he'll get back to us. Fingers crossed.
ReplyDeleteThanks Russell, much appreciated. Will look forward to your friends comments.
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