What is it?

[Brian Walters]

Hi Paul

I'm no expert on North American birds (or Australian birds for that
matter) but it's possibly a Solitary Sandpiper.

Here's a couple of links I found - the second one even has a photo taken
in Michigan!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary_Sandpiper

http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/156/articles/introduction


(Could be completely wrong, of course)



Cheers

Brian

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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/




On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:00:43 -0400, "Paul Stenquist"
<pnstenquist at comcast.net> said:
> It's not a good photograph. That's for sure. This is a 100% crop, so  
> the bird is tiny in frame. But ti's a bird I've never seen in  
> Michigan. Of course, I'm not a dedicated birder, so take that with a  
> grain of bird seed. It does look a bit like some of the terns I've  
> seen in California. But different coloring and much chubbier. I could  
> look it up in my bird book but that wouldn't be much fun. I'm sure  
> someone here knows exactly what it is.
> 
> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7773050&size=lg
> 
> Paul
> 
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