Tweeters,

Here is one of the 68 photos that I took at Westport Marina that, in my
ignorance, did not share. Please direct your attention to the
posterior of the bird in front of the square washer.
http://homepage.mac.com/l.schwitters/PhotoAlbum4.html

Got my hands on Dennis Paulson's 2005 "Shorebirds of North America".
Great book. Page 177 under Black-tailed Godwit-identification.

"Nonbreeding adult much like comparable plumage of Hudsonian, but
difference in wing length allows identification. In Hudsonian, wing
tips project well beyond tail and primary projection obviously longer
than bill-to-eye distance; in Black-tailed, wings project just beyond
tail and primary projection no longer that bill-to-eye distance."

Check it out.

Larry Schwitters
Issaquah