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Bécasseau roussâtre / Buff-breasted Sandpiper / Tryngites subruficollis
PORT-NEUF-SUR-MER - Banc de Portneuf-sur-Mer
The summer flooding along the Wabash river has created a lot of good mudflats and some great habitat for shorebirds. One of the best finds was a small group of Buff-breasted Sandpipers pointed out to me by Evan Speck while surveying the area together.
The flats are drying up quickly so unless we get a bunch more rain, I'd say these mudflats will be dry by the middle of the week.
Taken at Mud Bay, Delta, British Columbia, CA.
Buff-Breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis)
My first sighting and shots of this species, and what a handsome bird it is! They are rare on the West Coast.
I hesitated to go out today in search of this bird since rain was in the forecast. So in order to 'get out of the house' I went out in the afternoon contrary to a genetic predisposition that leaves me averse to wet weather. Well the rain held off until after these shots were taken. I parked myself on a driftwood log, and these sweet little birds walked to within fifteen feet of me. The light was abysmal, but this pair of birds accommodated that condition by coming so close to me.
*Lifer of the day*
One of three present.
Ocean Shores Game Range, Grays Harbor County, Washington
20 August 2009
photo (c) Charlie Wright.
A Buff-breasted Sandpiper feeds along a field at the Challenger Road side of Overpeck Park in Leonia, NJ. Digiscoped on 09/17/10.
The summer flooding along the Wabash river has created a lot of good mudflats and some great habitat for shorebirds. One of the best finds was a small group of Buff-breasted Sandpipers pointed out to me by Evan Speck while surveying the area together.
The flats are drying up quickly so unless we get a bunch more rain, I'd say these mudflats will be dry by the middle of the week.
The summer flooding along the Wabash river has created a lot of good mudflats and some great habitat for shorebirds. One of the best finds was a small group of Buff-breasted Sandpipers pointed out to me by Evan Speck while surveying the area together.
The flats are drying up quickly so unless we get a bunch more rain, I'd say these mudflats will be dry by the middle of the week.
A Buff-breasted Sandpiper feeds along a field at the Challenger Road side of Overpeck Park in Leonia, NJ. Digiscoped on 09/17/10.
A large group of Buff-breasted Sandpipers kept walking closer to me at Johnson Sod - 9-13-06. They finally came close enough for me to attempt some digiscope shots. A few came out from the 15 I took.
Surely the prettiest of the regular American vagrant Shorebirds. This beauty has been around for a few weeks now at Davidstow Airfield in Cornwall and with some good light promised in the weather forecast.... too tempting for me ;)
On a different issue the latest BOU taxonomic changes (Sept 2012) now place this bird in the genus Calidris - I protest!
More of this lovely bird on my pbase pages; www.pbase.com/davebarnes/buffbreasted_sandpiper__calidris...
Digiscoped with a 65mm Leica Televid and Leica D-Lux 4. 1 of 2 juveniles. This image is a really heavy crop as the bird was pretty far away.
A fairly unusual bird around here I think. This was taken on my final morning in Canada during torrential rain - hence the attrocious quality of the photo (see, I'm still making excuses)!