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观察细节

Counted. For real. Never seen so many in one spot. Absolutely spectacular. Nice, plump shorebirds, red-brown on back, white on front and head, marbled with black from face onto neck. Got a blurry photo or two through the scope with a macro lens, but the wind was vibrating the setup, so they are blurry. Will see if any came out to post. First counted 6 and a dunlin together and freaked out (the most I had ever seen before was 4). Swept back through a minute later and the dunlin was gone, but there was a 7th. I scratched my head, wondered if I had accidentally identified a ruddy turnstone as a dunlin, couldn't figure how I coulda done something so stupid, but on a third sweep, found the dunlin right out in front (it moved closer to us by a row of birds) and 10 ruddy turnstones running around together. I decided not to count again. Maybe I should have? :)