HI, I'm asking for expert opinions.
Today I left the dog and the trash bag for collecting roadside litter behind and I took the camera instead.
I walked back to the bridge over the Englishman's River in Washington Co. where I was yesterday, picking up litter and walking the dog. The Great Blue Heron was gone but there were other things to see.
I was enjoying the Common Mergansers on the Bay side when a shorebird call got my attention on the up-river side of the road. I am not good at shorebirds but I hope someone will help me. This time I got decent photos. I think this is a likely bird, nothing rare or unusual. I think it is a Greater or a Lesser Yellowlegs, but I can't tell which. I eliminated Solitary Sandpiper (which was here a few weeks ago in the sulphur pond at the end of Cow Point Rd) because it wasn't bobbing much and the bill on this one seems longer. In one photo it looks like it might have a slightly bent tip- is that a Greater bill? It has prominent spectacles, yellow legs, stayed feeding in the same spot for a long time, no other similar birds in the area. I played both Yellowlegs calls on my ebird app but neither sounded like the call I remember- it sounded like one peent. Maybe I heard a Hairy woodpecker- lots of them around today- and it was only a coincidence that I then saw the shorebird.
The most recent entries are of this bird: http://acadiabirds.wordpress.com/
Carol, in Washington County, Roque Bluffs Thanks in advance for any advice.
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