The consensus for the unknown is a white-rumped sandpiper. Unknown Sandpiper http://www.flickr.com/photos/malcolmgold/8761848275/
Comments included "The spots down the flanks and long wing projections are what I am looking at" and "appears to be nonbreading plummaged in transition". As terrible as it is to say I often wait until they fly to check out the rumps in flight. On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Malcolm Gold <[email protected]>wrote: > My wife I walked through the flooded Bartlet Lake Rd in Winona this > afternoon. A decent sized flock of peeps was fairly tolerant and allowed > us to take a few photos. There were 40+ Semipalmated Sandpipers, 12 Least > Sandpipers, 1 White-rumped, and an unidentified one. Please backchannel me > via email or comment on the flickr link with any points that would separate > the two likely species. > > Least Sandpipers > http://www.flickr.com/photos/malcolmgold/8762972362/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/malcolmgold/8761841727/<http://www.flickr.com/photos/malcolmgold/8761841727/in/photostream/> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/malcolmgold/8761846155/ > > Semipalmated Sandpiper > http://www.flickr.com/photos/malcolmgold/8762978258/ > > Unknown Sandpiper > http://www.flickr.com/photos/malcolmgold/8761848275/ > > -- > Malcolm Gold (Stockton, Winona County) > http://mcmdgold.blogspot.com/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/malcolmgold/ > -- Malcolm Gold (Stockton, Winona County) http://mcmdgold.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/malcolmgold/ ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
