This is a lifer for me and is a rare vagrant here. This individual is in winter plumage.

According to Wikipedia:

"The sharp-tailed sandpiper (Calidris acuminata) is a small-medium migratory wader or shorebird, found mostly in Siberia during the summer breeding period (June to August) and Australia for wintering (September to March)."

I hope it gets to Australia.

Miquelon Lake Provincial Park, Alberta.

Alpine, NJ

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LaBelle, Idaho

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Sharpness

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A Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) perched on an old fencepost near the Great Sandhills south of Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.

2 June, 2011.

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I'd been wondering why I haven't had any birds at my feeders for the last few days. Then I saw this beautiful little guy perched in the feeder tree. I would assume that it was a male as it appeared very small - about Kestrel size. This is the first one I have noted in my yard and I hope he comes back from time to time but not take up permanent residence here.

"Sharp" theme, Macro Mondays. Never know what you'll find in the old tool box.

Coyote Hills Regional Park

Fremont, CA

my old very sharp kitchen slicer made with high-grade steel - slicing radish

A sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) in the yard near a feeder in Tucson, Arizona. (Thanks to Arron Watler for help with the id).

Coyote Hills Regional Park

Fremont, CA

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The Sharp-tailed Sandpiper is related to our Pectoral Sandpiper, and like that species it is a long-distance migrant, traveling from Siberia to Australia and New Zealand. A few reach North America every year, mostly fall migrants in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.

thursday is the day before the day before weekend...

South Dakota

Agave plant abstract

for Smile on Saturday

theme: Birds

Monkey Puzzle Tree

Kew

The Pier at Sharpness jutting out into the murky Severn...

Image taken on a clear sunny day on one of my favorite routes in the mountains, as it allows you to observe a beautiful 360 degree panorama all around.

Distanza cristallina

Immagine scattata al bivacco Legui mt 1960, in una limpida giornata di sole su uno dei miei percorsi preferiti in montagna, in quanto permette di osservare un bellissimo panorama a 360 gradi, in cui troneggia il Monte Disgrazia.

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A Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus ) perched on a fence post on the edge of a prairie meadow near Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.

2 June, 2011.

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Packing shed, Fowler, Ca.

Brown Booby has a Sharp beak

Don Schwanke Sr (Butch), Captured Wisconsin Central GP30 2253, just after it was pulled from the Wisconsin & Southern paint shop in Horicon. Butch couldn't have asked for better morning light.

WC 2253

WSOR Paint Shop

Horicon, WI.

December 12, 1998

Butch Schwanke photo,

D.A.Longley collection

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Photographed at my home. There are some interesting shadows on this bird. Shadows of small tree branches almost look like they are coming out of this birds shoulder. IMG_1173

Watch your step.

Clean shirt, new shoes

And I don't know where I am goin' to

Silk suit, black tie,

I don't need a reason why

They come runnin' just as fast as they can

'Cause every girl crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man - ZZ Top

Sharps Close in Falkland, Fife, Scotland

Happy "Looking close... on Friday!" with "combinations of soft & sharp".

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Looking for lunch

Photographed in my yard, Yakima County, Washington. This bird was around my house most of the day. I saw a Coppers Hawk try to chase it away but it returned. I don't believe it made a kill but I hope it found something to eat. The next photo of the same bird.

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