I think you are correct, Matt! (??). Check these out:
http://upload.pbase.com/nrothschild/image/149503434/original
http://upload.pbase.com/nrothschild/image/149503435/original
Those images were 1 step from the trash bin because the out of camera was fairly badly overexposed. I hadn't studied them in detail and haven't even gone through the 600 odd images properly that I shot yesterday. Because they were a bit overexposed the whitish feathers may be color shifted. Good catch!
Neil Rothschild
Owings Mills, MD
From: Matt Hafner [mailto:<hafner.matt...>] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 10:32 AM To: Neil Rothschild Subject: Re: [MDBirding] Snipe Hunting at Oxbow Lake (Photos)
Hey Neil,
Do you have any more photos of the male Green-winged Teal facing away in the center of this photo? http://www.pbase.com/nrothschild/image/149503001
That broad white horizontal stripe sure looks like a Common (Eurasian Green-winged) Teal to me!
Matt
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Neil Rothschild <neil.rothschild98...> wrote:
After getting some additional info from Marcy (thanks!), yesterday (April 2) I went to Oxbow Lake for the first time. From the north end of the Primitive Trail where it goes down to lake side level, I counted 24 Wilson's Snipe foraging along the eastern side of Gallinule Point. Here is one image that includes 9. This is a very large "Pano Style" image. You may not want to view this from your phone.
http://www.pbase.com/nrothschild/image/149503001/original
Some beautiful light on the water just after dawn... While I was surveying those 24, a distinctly separate flock of 35 flew to the back wide (western) of Gallinule Point:
http://www.pbase.com/nrothschild/image/149498422/original
As Marcy suggested in a recent post or eBird report, the more you look the more you see :-). I'm still studying a couple of hundred survey images to see if I can add to my 24 count, but at this point it stands at 59. I started around 7:15am. By 9:30 or so they were getting scarce and when I left at 11:15 am I did not see any, nor did I see them fly out because I was down at the southern end of the lake.
Also got some images of 4 Caspian Terns, and 20 Blue-winged Teal in flight, among other things. And a curious Raccoon in the marsh.
http://www.pbase.com/nrothschild/image/149503149
Thanks again Marcy, for keeping us up to date on the Sniping!
Neil Rothschild Owings Mills, MD
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