Candlestick bird, aka long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus)

I have a few passable shots of this curlew on the ground. Might share one tomorrow. I hastily decided this was a long-billed curlew, then checked listings of recent Washington state bird sightings and saw lots of whimbrel sightings and not one curlew. Thought maybe I'd made a mistake. Looked and looked at identification data, almost determined to prove I was wrong, but everything I found made me more convinced I was not. Clincher was fact that whimbrels' bills are uniformly dark while curlews' are pinkish, and darker at the end. Check.

Love that pattern on the back of this bird! Nice image.

Shared this sighting on eBird with more photos.