As an aside to the ruff, check out the orange leg-flagged stint in photos
6789 and 6778.
Cheers,
Paul
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:24 PM, <> wrote:
> Nice one Barry. 1 or 2 Ruffs seem to turn up each year at the WTP, so
> you've done well finding this one.
>
> My gut feel from the pics is your took this photo at Paradise Lagoons, buy
> hey..theres not much to work on.
>
> If you're where i'm thinking, you were on a road just before going out a
> gate adjacent to the river, and were shooting across a drain/channel with
> the You Yangs(hills rising from the plains) behind the bird??? You would
> have had Lake borrie (the largest body of water in the plant) at your
> back???
>
>
>
>
> wrote: -----
>
> To:
> From:
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> Date: 11/16/2010 08:38PM
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Western Treatment Plant Wader ID Help
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm an American birder who has reached the end of his fifth Aussie birding
>
> trip. On Sunday this week, I was out at the WTP in Werribee, Victoria, and
>
> I saw a wader that I could use some help with.
>
> It was originally with three Common Greenshanks, and was slightly smaller
> than them, and obviously different. It had yellow legs, quite long. It
> flew and it was seen a little while later on a different pond. I was with
> a
> local birder, and I'm sorry, but I can't tell you which ponds we saw it
> on,
> but he would probably know, if it matters.
>
> We pondered the possibilities and came up with Great Knot, but that was
> before we saw the yellow legs so clearly, on the second pond. The legs
> also
> seemed too long for Great Knot, and the bill length seemed too short.
>
> I took some pictures, at too great a distance, and with a hand held point
> and shoot super zoom camera, so they aren't good at all, but maybe they are
>
> good enough to help with an ID. The pictures can be seen here:
>
> _http://www.barry15.com/2010_Australia_Trip/Wader/_
> (http://www.barry15.com/2010_Australia_Trip/Wader/)
>
> The only bird in my field guide that seems to match all the features is
> Ruff, but I realize that that would be a rarity, so I am skeptical. What
> am
> I missing? Help please?
>
> Barry Brugman
> USA
>
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