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My favorite is the second photo.
But it's not a "Willet": thin bill, pretty different spotting and these yellow (more orange on the photo because of the light) long legs!
The real question is: Lesser or Greater Yellow legs!
I lean to the Greater Yellow legs because (and ~only!): the bill is too long in proportion to the head. In the Lesser it's just marginally longer than the head. Also the flanks look more spotted than in the Lesser!
From photos it's hard to make the difference bigger/smaller bird (when the difference is not that big). Same with the "more strait/more upturned bill" - depend a lot on the angle of view.
Anyway-keep posting: more people shooting birds = more chances to see different birds!
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All of these were shot on the R6 Mk II and the RF100-500 on Green Lake in Wisconsin
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Thanks for sharing: I like to do Sherlock with the shore birds - some of them are really difficult and ID by photo could be frustrating!
First two are easy: Sanderling and Rudy Turnstoune.
The third one got my attention (you posted the same species at BIF I think). I will come to this one after few (sluggish
!) strokes...Fourth - I hardly can comment...
And I don't really care about the Cormorant.
The third one looks to me like a Semipalmated Sandpiper: black legs (eliminating the Stints with yellow legs). Still there are 4 more Stints with black legs
rolleyes! BTW I assume it's a Stint comparing the size of the bird with the background and it could be misleading (if you can help with this?)! I can't see the feet - for webbing (if I could the list would be shorten to two species only : Semipalmated and Western!). The head looks more elongated then the Western Sandpiper. For the Red-necked Stint the bill is not enough deep and the primary projection is not long (at least judging from your photo - different angles are welcome!!!).Now it's a war between the Semipalmated and the Little Stints. The Little should have longer primary projection and unwebbed feet (that I can't see). On other hand the bird on your photo has a little bit more pointed bill than I wouldn't expect from the Semipalmated!
And: these are just preliminary conclusions!
Few more photos like these and my hair will get from silver to completely white
!
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These are from my walk today in the nearby beech park - went there to see some of the migrants coming back. The Pacific Golden Plover was there (photo) and few Rudy Turnstounes.
The most interesting bird there was the Chestnut Munia (Lonchura atricapilla). Not because it's rare on the island but I have never seen on this spot (and altitude) so many adults of them! 3-4 flocks with 25-35 birds each! The flocks were behaving as this bird should: flushing when you try to approach closer! But when I sit on a bench to drink some water I noticed 2 of them mixed in a big flock of Common Wax-bill. In this case the problem was that they were like chasing me
: I'm kneeling and trying to get focus between the grass and they are coming closer and closer - hard to frame! I don't think I ever had the opportunity to shoot this bird from so close distance!
And few photos of Common Waxbill posing nicely in taller grass...
The most interesting bird there was the Chestnut Munia (Lonchura atricapilla). Not because it's rare on the island but I have never seen on this spot (and altitude) so many adults of them! 3-4 flocks with 25-35 birds each! The flocks were behaving as this bird should: flushing when you try to approach closer! But when I sit on a bench to drink some water I noticed 2 of them mixed in a big flock of Common Wax-bill. In this case the problem was that they were like chasing me
: I'm kneeling and trying to get focus between the grass and they are coming closer and closer - hard to frame! I don't think I ever had the opportunity to shoot this bird from so close distance!And few photos of Common Waxbill posing nicely in taller grass...
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