Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) (1 Viewer)

[jbpixels]

or Green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)?
Regarding eye-stripe and chest transition.
Your opinion please.
Upper Bavaria, June 2022, gravel pit

 

[THE_FERN]

Surely wood sandpiper with that supercilium which extends over and past the eye. In green the white's basically restricted to the loral area [so not actually a supercilium]

 

[Butty]

Upperparts brown with loads of spots. Wood sandpiper.

 

[jbpixels]

Surely wood sandpiper with that supercilium which extends over and past the eye. In green the white's basically restricted to the loral area [so not actually a supercilium]

Thank you. Pretty unusual appearance in a gravel pit in Bavaria during summer.

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Thank you. Pretty unusual appearance in a gravel pit in Bavaria during summer.

Hello,

yes, but there were many Wood Sandpiper present at suitable places around Brandenburg/Havel (for example here Reckahner Teiche) from end of june on. An influx or just low water levels revealing good feeding areas?

 

[jbpixels]

Hello,

yes, but there were many Wood Sandpiper present at suitable places around Brandenburg/Havel (for example here Reckahner Teiche) from end of june on. An influx or just low water levels revealing good feeding areas?

Thank you for the info about Reckahner ponds. Guess you agree that Bavaria is not Brandenburg and that a gravel pit is by far not comparable with these ponds. Lake Ammer or Ismaninger Speicherseen are water bodies where this species can be seen regularly. A gravel pit, no permanent water, is def. not a place of first choice. Would be interesting to know how they (two reported later) found it. Probably because some lakes (Lake Starnberg, Lake Ammer ... and smaller lakes) are not far away. I spent a lot of time there in the past decade. The likelihood of finding a wood sandpiper there is pretty low. Green sandpiper is not a rare guest there.

​