"Very small, small-headed, comparatively wide-eyed thin-necked sandpiper with a thin fine-pointed bill that droops slightly at tip. ... Our only common pale-legged (Legs usually yellowish) small sandpiper. Feathers on back and wings dark brown with rufous or white margins; breast with fine black streaks over buffy wash ... thin white lines (braces) down each side of mantle ... Dull white eyebrows meet over bill ...." (Donald & Lillian Stokes's The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America, p. 264)

This bird was not more than six inches in length.

Photo taken with a Nikon D90 using a Nikon 400mm, f/5.6 lens.

July 27, 2012.