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Rick Bowes | all galleries >> 2014 Various Galleries >> Photos taken on Duxbury Beach during 2014 - a gallery for each month >> Shots taken on Duxbury Beach_Gurnet_Saquish July, 2014 > Ruddy Turnstone (banded) - Duxbury Beach, MA - July 23, 2014
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23-JUL-2014

Ruddy Turnstone (banded) - Duxbury Beach, MA - July 23, 2014

This bird was photographed between the 1st and 2nd crosovers on the bay side about 2 hours before High Tide. Note that it has a gray band on the lower right leg as well as the engraved green flag on the upper right.

The banding site documents that this bird was first captured:
5/29/2012 2:30:00 PM - Reeds Beach - North, NJ USA
and Resighted:
5/22/2013 - Mispillion Harbor, DE, USA
5/28/2014 - Cooks Beach - South, NJ USA

If it had come through Duxbury Beach on those dates it would have been in the last 1/4 or so of the spring migrants, and so I find it ingtriguing that it is among the early returnees on July 23. Somehow I thought the late-ish spring migrants would be among the late-ish fall migrants; apparently not so!

Canon EOS 40D
1/800s f/10.0 at 400.0mm iso400 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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