Apparently Tim was watching 2 dunlin get flushed by a beachwalker then out over the lake they were joined by a white shorebird and a couple others. They circled for a while and ended up on the pier. He scanned the pier intently looking for the white one hoping for a piping plover or phalarope or who knows what and glassed the flock ... dunlin, dunlin, dunlin, red knot, dunlin, where's-the-white-one, wait a second RED KNOT??? By the time I got there they were halfway to Jean Kloch.
If you have an old Peterson dunlin goes by the name of red-backed sandpiper. I guess this one was trying to live up to that name at the very least even if the rest of the bird was screaming peregrine bait.
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In the afternoon after meeting up with an old friend Hugo, I followed Ginger around Harbert Park geo-caching. On the way there we passed a Red-headed woodpecker with a hole in a telephone pole and a beautiful cattail marsh I'd never seen before (ITS NEVER TOO EARLY TO START SCOUTING FOR BIRDATHON). This skipper was pretty common. I think it's a Hobomok skipper, but it might be any of at least 4 others...
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Matt, as you know, I am certainly not an expert, but I think your skipper is a Peck's. Roger K. would be the one who could say one way or the other definitively. I sent him a photo with the same differential - Peck's or Hobomok. Mine was a Peck's.
I did in fact email Roger who agreed with it being Hobomok. I think the 4 times I looked through the skipper section I came up with a different possibility. There's a little stripe in the forewing at the leading edge of the brown spot in the post-median (?) area that's not as prominent in my pic as in the Kaufman pic but that I didn't really see in other candidates which was how I decided on it being a Hobo.
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