[obol] Photos of unknown - possible Red Knot? - Fern Ridge
- From: Priscilla Nam Hari Kaur <priscillanhk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: OBOL <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 19:52:32 -0700
Sent this earlier from my yahoo account. I don't see it on the OBA OBOL
archives (through present time), so I am forwarding it from my gmail
account. See further down for link to pictures of the bird we saw.
Priscilla Sokolowski
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*Subject:* Photos of unknown - possible Red Knot? - Fern Ridge
OBOLers;
The best birders in our Campbell Center Birds-of-Oregon-and-General-Science
(BOGS) group were stymied on this one today.
(see link further down if you just want to see the photos right away!)
Initial very short-term impressions by the less experienced (me, for
example) were L.B. Dowitcher, but bill too short; then Short-Billed
Dowitcher; but even then the bill seems too short and a tiny bit
down-curved. The rufous/red/salmon color of the breast does not span the
area completely, leaving white around the edges. I've not seen that in
Dowitchers, but I don't have a great deal of experience with them. The head
does not (yet?) have the red color and the eye-stripe seems weak for a
Knot. But perhaps it's not in full alternate plumage yet. Black legs.
White lower Breast and belly. Not much to see under the wings... nor on the
tail
I've never seen a Red Knot, and was not familiar with them even from field
guides,
but our best birder (Floyd Weitzel) said, after a considerable amount of
looking, he thought it might be a Red Knot. He doesn't label birds unless
he has some degree of confidence about them and he looked long and hard at
this bird in his spotting scope and was never completely sure about it. I
think the photos show enough of the birds features to identify it. So I'm
dying to find out what it really is!
Perhaps related, perhaps gnot, I've included (at the end of the album) a
flock of shorebirds which flew by the area of this solitary unknown bird at
one point, because perhaps they are the same species? Their bills look too
long though. Okay, but still, what are they?
We walked out Royal to the observation platform, and saw the mystery bird
from there, looking SouthWest about 200 or 300 yards (in the general
direction of Pelican island). Along the way, we enjoyed Bitterns flying
in pairs - possibly two pairs coming by again and again almost as if
challenging us to get a good photo of them - which I didn't. Good looks at
Yellowthroat, Savannah Sparrows, Marsh Wrens. Heard Sora a number of times
and some folks could hear the Bittern once in a while. I heard one there
last week but I couldn't hear it today over the chatter of our group.
Never did get rained on in spite of the threatening clouds all morning.
Wasn't even cold really. Very pleasant morning out there, enjoyed by all
15-20 of us.
I will be adding photos of the other birds to this album in the next couple
days
so if interested check the link again in a few days. Another photographer
will be sending me what he got out there today and he gets a lot that I
miss.
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