ID help, Dunlin?

[Joeturner11]

Not looking for any Critique etc. on this just ID, Thanks

 

[realspeed]

may be a Bar-tailed Godwit or Common Sandpiper, more likely to be the latter if that is any help

 

[Neil B]

You were right first time Joe

 

[realspeed]

You were right first time Joe

About what???

 

[Neil B]

About what???

Joe's thread title "ID help, DUNLIN ?"

 

[Joeturner11]

You were right first time Joe

Cheers pal, just like double checking as Waders are sometimes a bugger to get right with ID

 

[Neil B]

Cheers pal, just like double checking as Waders are sometimes a bugger to get right with ID

It's a Juvenile

 

[BRASH]

Dunlins are amongst the easier to identify.

 

[jerry12953]

As plumages can vary throughout the year, it's always helpful to add date and location of sighting if you're looking for an ID, Joe. But it looks like a dunlin to me.

For further information, a bird photographed at this time of year would technically be a "1st winter" rather than a juvenile, as it would have moulted its juvenile feathers by now. Winter plumage dunlin is normally rather a greyish bird, possibly more so than this one.