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[alcina2]

At the weekend I spent 11 hours wandering round the Sussex coast looking for a Hudsonian whimbrel which was supposed to be in the area. Didn't find it.

The man standing next to me found this, though...

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[deliberateblank]

Clearly, given the background, that is a Sandpiper of Mordor.

[tiggymalvern]

That is a very dark photo of a bird.

I did see the crested caracara last week. Those people who saw it out hunting got killer views. It did not hunt while I was there, and I saw a part bird buried in a fir tree away from the attentions of the corvids.

[tiggymalvern]

It's weird. I comes up a little underexposed on my monitor at home, but not like this. I do have a correctly exposed shot, but only of the back half of the bird, as it walked out of shot. When seen on a different monitor, it's a terek sandpiper.

Well done on the caracara

[tiggymalvern]

A sandpiper that is very easily recognisable because of the bill - we need more of those! Except I wouldn't have recognised it from your photo because I was expecting a bigger bird. You've caught it with its neck outstretched and I just wasn't even thinking of a small peep. My brain was interpreting yellowlegs size.

[alcina2]

For a peep it does have rather a long neck. And it's to the larger end of peeps: it has almost the same size range as lesser yellowlegs, according to my field guide.

Brightened up a bit digitally: