It's good that you included the Sharpie? for size comparison as I find Long-toed Stints difficult to ID from photos, they look like minature Sharpies. I put a question mark on the Sharpie in photo 2, becuase I'm not quite 100% sure that it's not a Pectoral Sandpiper.
Well the Long-toed Stint was the one everyone was out there searching for. This was the one I considered my best chance of having found it, but I was only mildly confident. Now pretty confident with your opinions and some more reading in the mean time. So a big thanks.....this was my first new one. The other bird, I was hoping a Pectoral, I did show picture to someone out at Werribee today and they said no just a Sharpie........I am not convinced either way. I don't know Pectorals and am trying to get a photograph of one but each photograph seems to divide people. Will keep trying.
I'm going for Long-toed Stint on this one.
I'll 2nd Long-toed Stint.
It's good that you included the Sharpie? for size comparison as I find Long-toed Stints difficult to ID from photos, they look like minature Sharpies. I put a question mark on the Sharpie in photo 2, becuase I'm not quite 100% sure that it's not a Pectoral Sandpiper.
Well the Long-toed Stint was the one everyone was out there searching for. This was the one I considered my best chance of having found it, but I was only mildly confident. Now pretty confident with your opinions and some more reading in the mean time. So a big thanks.....this was my first new one. The other bird, I was hoping a Pectoral, I did show picture to someone out at Werribee today and they said no just a Sharpie........I am not convinced either way. I don't know Pectorals and am trying to get a photograph of one but each photograph seems to divide people. Will keep trying.