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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:00:43 -0400, "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - I mean, what is it about a decent email service? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
