Re: [Maine-birds] Dowitcher ID

Ok, but which dowitcher IS it?

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Chuck Homler <needsmoreritalin@gmail.com> wrote:

That individual bird has been there for at least four weeks in that same condition. I have about 100 million pictures of that thing if you want and some of them from very close up.

When I first noticed it I thought it was a bad molt.  A week later seeing it in the same spot as the week before and getting a closer look I thought the eing may be broken.  

I considered bringing it to the center for Wildlife for rehab.  It is not flying when the other birds flush.  The bird is still feisty, I watched it steal a worm from a blackbellied plover and run away with it to devour it. It's foraging successfully as well.

I didn't "save" it because my concern was that the center for wildlife would euthanize it especially if the wing was broken and healed wrong.   I felt that would be better for it to live out his life naturally, as it still foraging and interacting together birds.  

If you think it could be rehabilitated, I would gladly meet you or anyone else there to catch it.

I will post some photos to the Maine-Bird list Flickr page in a few minutes.  

Sent from my iPhone... So please forgive typographical errors, message brevity and any strange word choices my phone decides were better than what I actually typed.

On Oct 1, 2013, at 11:29 PM, David Rankin <darkfirefalcon@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

Last weekend and the weekend before, I saw this dowitcher at Pine Point. It's got a bad wing, so it's pretty distinctive. I initially dismissed it as a Short-billed, but now some things have me wondering about Long-billed. Any advice would be appreciated. Link to photos on Flickr: http://flic.kr/p/giTT1C

Thanks

David Rankin

Biddeford

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