Baird's Sandpiper

I'd ideally like a bit more action from the bird - even something as subtle as a raised foot - but I hung onto this static pose because it represents my best frame of this species to date. Baird's Sandpipers nest in the Arctic and migrate south through Great Plains each fall. Juveniles occasionally stray to the West Coast, and this intersection represented the only decent photographic opportunity among my ~dozen California/Oregon encounters. We can see all the field marks which differentiate this species from Western, Least, Semipalmated, and White-rumped Sandpipers: the buffy wash across the breast, the beautifully scalloped back feathers, the black legs, and the very long primaries which extend beyond the tail tip. That extension gives this shorebird a very long and low profile.

Florence, Lane County, Oregon, 8/28/20
Canon 600mm f/4 IS II + 1.4x III on EOS 1Dx Mark II
1/3200 at f/7.1, ISO 800