Just a few more details on the one-minute wonder Ruff at Conneaut, Saturday morning. The bird was a molting adult male. It dropped in next to a Greater Yellowlegs and was quite a bit shorter and fairly stocky. The bill was quite distinctive - fairly short with a bit of a downwards curve towards the tip. It was all dark with a pale area at the base. The bird's breast was blotchy gray and black, with a few black spots indicating molt. The markings on the breast extended about as far down as a Pectoral's, but ended more jaggedly. The rest of the body was basically mottled gray and black. In flight, it sport a weak wingstripe and extensive white on the rump. It flew sort of erractically, vaguely snipelike. In flight, molt was also obvious, with gaps in the primaries and secondaries. It stayed probably less than a minute. That's all for now - Gabe Leidy Hinckley ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]