| Spotted Sandpiper | May 2009 |
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The terrific aspect of the spotted sandpiper is its spots. No other sandpiper has round spots on its chest, which makes identification fairly straightforward.
The spotted sandpiper is a smaller sandpiper, about the size of a cedar waxwing, or, for a more common measurement, significantly smaller than an American robin.)
The following spots are less than perfectly round; nevertheless, I'm sure it's a spotted sandpiper.
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I always enjoy a good reflection, and for some reason I seem to take spotted sandpiper photos when the sandpiper is walking across shallow water.
And here we have classically round spots.
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The only downside to spotted sandpiper identification is that the sandpiper loses its spots in the fall and winter, leaving the shorebird with a white breast. Somewhere I've a photo of one, and someday I might find it.
Photo note: I used a Pentax *ist D in May 2008 and a K200D in May 2009, each with SMC 1000mm reflex lens. | ||
