[texbirds] Re: Ruff along 8Mile Road, Galveston
- From: "Michael Lindsey" <m_lndsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "TexBirds" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 23:25:00 -0500
I was at the same location as mention this afternoon and photographed a
couple of Pectoral Sandpipers, but did not see a Ruff. The bird in question
does look quite odd...I guess it could be oil.
Actually, the location had some nice birds. Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs,
Solitary Sandpiper, Dunlin, Least Sandpiper, Dowitchers and the Pectorals.
Last Sunday I found a Least Bittern lurking there.
http://www.pbase.com/mlndsy/inbox
Good birding,
Michael Lindsey
Pearland
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Subject: [texbirds] Re: Ruff along 8Mile Road, Galveston
All -
My first reaction at seeing the images was "cool!". Then, I too, started
to have second thoughts. A Ruff should be a LOT bigger than the nearby
Dunlin, and the head looks subtly wrong, too. Like Nick said, too bad you
did not get any photos of the rump and tail.
Hope it is re-found.
Clay Taylor
Calallen (Corpus Christi) TX
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> On Apr 3, 2014, at 10:23 PM, "Nicholas Block" <nlb.birder@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> Hello Dennis et al.,
> This bird seems a little off for Ruff to me. Did you happen to notice
> the rump pattern when it flew? The primary projection seems a bit too
> long for Ruff, as well as the unpatterned tertials and greater
> coverts. I'm wondering if it could be an oiled male Pectoral
> Sandpiper? What do you think? Bizarre-looking bird, either way!
>
> Cheers,
> Nick Block
> Lewisburg, PA (former Texan)
> nlb.birder AT gmail.com
>
> ------
> Howdy Texbirders,
>
> This afternoon, John Tharp and I discovered a Ruff which was molting
> into breeding plumage, along 8 Mile Road, on Galveston Island. The
> bird was located about a mile along the road on the right side. If
> one travels along 8 Mile Road, one eventually comes to a wide shallow
> wet area on the left. At this point on the right is a much smaller
> "pond" where the bird was observed for about 15 minutes preening and
> bouncing up into air. I obtained a series of photographs and then the
> bird flew in an undetermined direction. We were unable to relocate the
bird.
>
> I hope that others are able to relocate this nifty bird.
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
>
> Dennis
> West Houston
> Harris County
>
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