ML31683421

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

It flew from the west into the south side of the eastern most pond. It was fairly tawny in flight, large, and had a white, deeply u-shaped rump patch. I did not have the scope and spent a while squinting at it at 8x. It was smaller than the stilts, but much larger than the nearby Least Sandpipers and Semipalmated Plovers. The body feathers has a large scaly look as the centers of the feathers were darker than the margins. The upper chest and part-way down the flanks were streaked; the belly was white. The head looked small, the bill slightly decurved. It flew again, and I was able to confirm the rump patch. I returned the following day, May 3, with my scope and digiscoped the bird. The photos here are scans of color prints of the digiscoped photos; the original digital files are lost. The photo shows the eyeline that creates the elongated Cleopatra look to the eye. I believed it to be a female. It was subsequently seen by others; I don't know how many days it persisted.

Technical information

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