While cutting and fluffing hay our neighbor noticed this bird catching insects in the stirred hay. It was new to him, and so knowing that I am interested in wild birds, he called me to come identify it. It was new to me, too, but using my binoculars and a field guide I was able to give him a name--an Upland Sandpiper-- once quite common, but hunted to near extinction. Protection for migratory bird species have given it a chance to rebound.It does not nest here, but was migrating to its grassland home in Canada or prairie states to the north and west of us. It winters in Argentina.
