Rusty Blackbird, Varied Thrush, & Ruff?

["Bryan Shirley" <bt_shirley at hotmail dot com>]

Today on our UT county birders trip we were successful in locating both the 
Blackbird & the
Varied Thrush.  The Thrush was about 100 yards up the road from Beus Pond in 
Logan.  It was with
a bunch of robins in the trees along the road, but they all flew across the 
road and down into
the oak below the road.

After that we went to Farmington Bay.  At the end of the road in the outflow 
there were
about 10 Gr. Yellowlegs, 1 Lesser Yellowlegs, 3 Least, and 1 other 
shorebird.  All of our group
but L. Giddings & I had to leave, but we stayed and watched this bird for 
about 3 hours and
came to the conclusion that it is a Ruff, but it doesn't really look like 
any in the books. I called
Eric & KC and they came down and we all agreed that it is probably a Ruff, 
but it doesn't really
match any of the pictures exactly and none of us have a lot of experience 
seeing them.

Honestly part of deciding on a Ruff was that I have no idea what else it 
could be - I think that
we eliminated every possibility.  Hopefully it will stick around and a bunch 
of people can see it
and get some photos.  We took some today and will try to post them on the 
web.

Good Birding,

Bryan Shirley

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