Thursday, August 16, 2012

It's Baaaaack!

I took Caid out birding this morning, and Webster was hopping!  The highlight was having the Black-bellied Whistling-Duck back.  I decided to get some pics to record my sighting.  They are distant, but I believe they are diagnostic:
 Notice the white stripe on the wing coverts, the black belly, the brown upperparts, the pink/red bill and legs, and the gray face.  No other bird has these features together.

There was also a small group of Buff-breasted Sandpipers (8) around.  I took some photos just to record there presence:
There was also a bird that I first thought was a Black-bellied Plover because two other birders had seen one this weekend.  However, after closer study, the bird was a American Golden-Plover.  The bird's bill was too dainty, the black on the flanks extended all the way to the undertail coverts, and the eyebrow and supercillium was more ditinct than I've seen on a Black-bellied Plover.

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