tags: peeps, shorebirds, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Identify these peeps -- photographed at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 4 June 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/750s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
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Ooo! Ooo! Are they... Semipalmated Sandpipers?
Two semis up front, two Western in the back?
I stand corrected, sir. Should have looked more closely at the birdies in the back.
Agree with Nick!
I agree with Nick, except that I would leave the back left unidentified since it's not in focus and part of the bill is missing.
I agree with Nick, except that I would leave the back left unidentified since it's not in focus and part of the bill is missing.
Yeah, but the back left bird still has too much rufous on the shoulder and crown to be a semi-palmated SP.
Front two are semi-palmateds, rear two are westerns.
I believe you'll find that it is the elusive purple-breasted birthday bird. In molt.
I feel good that I thought "sandpipers," though.
HJ
The one back left is an ostrich pretending to be an out of focus Western Sandpiper.
So, what prize have I won?
Looks like Goshawks to me.
Thems burds.
Now teh flurry of IDs has died down, I have to say it seems you gave it away by posting a picture slightly earlier in which you identified these very birds as "Western and Semipalmated Sandpipers". Didn't you?