Photos
by Bill Case and Carena Pooth
Herb
Thompson and Carena Pooth found a HUDSONIAN
GODWIT in Rhinebeck on Sunday,
November 10. The bird was
last reported seen at 3:30pm on November
15. This is a first species record for Dutchess
County. The bird was in the same condominium complex (The Woods)
where the goose hybrid was found on November 8 (see next entry,
below).
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Hudsonian
Godwit in Rhinebeck, NY
Nov. 12, 2002 10am
Click image to enlarge.
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An
RBA relay was initiated immediately and about a dozen people
saw the godwit the afternoon of November 10. Field marks
on this bird that distinguish it from Marbled Godwit are
the broad white band on the tail, which looks like a white
rump in some of the photos below, and bi-colored, slightly
recurved bill. When the bird bathed and preened in the water,
it spread its wings to display its white wingstripe and showed
us its distinctive black tail with the broad white subterminal
band.
11/12...After
receiving a couple of emails asking whether we had considered
Black-tailed Godwit (a remote possibility, but a possibility
nonetheless), Carena went back to Rhinebeck on November 12
to try to see the bird's wing linings. The linings would
be white in a Black-tailed Godwit but black in Hudsonian.
Carena and Art Jones, who had arrived a little earlier, located
the bird on the far end of the large pond and watched it
for two hours. The bird shook itself twice and the wings
looked quite dark underneath. |
Finally,
after the drizzle had turned to a light rain, the godwit
raised its wings high in the air for a moment, displaying
the telltale black linings and confirming its ID as a Hudsonian.
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Click
any of the godwit images to see an enlarged photo.
Photos are copyright
© Bill Case and © Carena Pooth
and may not be used without written permission.
Note: Tiny white specks on the bird's
back on Nov. 12 were droplets of rain.
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Nov.
15, 2:30pm
photo ©Bill Case |
Nov.
10, 3pm
photo ©Carena Pooth |
Nov.
12, 10am
photo ©Carena
Pooth |
Nov.
12, 9:45am
photo ©Carena
Pooth |
Nov.
12, 10am
having caught a large earthworm
photo ©Carena Pooth
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Directions: Take
Route 9 north from the main intersection in Rhinebeck to Montgomery
Street (just before the hospital on the left). Take Montgomery
Street and make the first left off Montgomery onto Astor Drive.
Watch for The Woods, a condominium complex, on the right. The
godwit has been on the lawn bordering the large pond to the right
of the tennis courts as you drive into the complex.
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