ML620089196

Age

Not specified

Sex

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Observation details

Continuing for the 3rd day after Peter and Katie saw this bird on Sunday. By chance, Brodie and Ezra saw the bird on Monday and identified it as a white-rumped sandpiper! Only obs about eight times in Oregon and the first time in Harney County. It was feeding the entire time in the wet mud interface with water from the spring, stopping just a few times. To see this bird, use the Frog Spring access point to Alvord desert. drive out a few hundred yards and then drive north (to the left) to the pin drop. park and walk a few hundred yards towards the hot spring facilities until you hit wet mud. It was mixed with a flock of about 32 snowy plovers and a few avocets about 50 yards further. We stopped at this point giving the bird room so he would not be spooked. While driving the lakebed, you will drive over several different shades of Playa; just make sure you stop before the darkest shade. If you get stuck, you can walk to the Hot Spring and they will call rancher and for several hundred dollars he will pull you out. One vehicle was being pulled out as we were there. And if you’ve never been out on the lakebed, make sure you pay attention to where you entered so you can find your way back. Once you’re out there at all, it starts to look the same! Photos.

Technical information

Model

DSC-RX10M4

Lens

8.8-220mm f/2.4-4.0

ISO

100

Focal length

220 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/1000 sec

Dimensions

4864 pixels x 3648 pixels

Original file size

9.18 MB