Wilson's Phalarope: A rare vagrant from America, and one of those slender, thin billed polyandrous (one female mates with multiple males) waders were the females are bigger and more brightly coloured than the males.
This bird was not a sexy plumaged female but a 1st winter bird that has spent the last two days on Junction Pool. When I arrived the light was terrible, from the screen you it was almost impossible to get anything but distant silhouetted record shots.
But from Marine Drive the light was much improved and I managed to get these. OK, they could be better, but also could be a lot worse.
Wilson’s phal breed in western Canada and the western United States. It is found on marshes, shrubby areas, and wet meadows, and during migration on salty lakes and mudflats in Central America. It winters in South America particularly on salt lakes near the Andes in Argentina.
