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As a family, sandpipers include a large number of species, and, for me, it can be frustrating telling one from the other. (That's when I depend on taking a decent photo and expert birders.)
Following are three big photos of the smallest sandpiper: the least sandpiper.
The least sandpiper is tiny! Think of a warbler on a pair of toothpicks, and you have an idea of its size.
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The embarrassment on the day I took the photos was that the least sandpiper landed too close to me. The minimum focal distance of the lens I was using is 27 feet, and I had to back carefully away, so as not to disturb the sandpiper.
The least sandpiper cooperated by walking farther away.
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Last, a good profile of the Least.
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My regret on the day was not havig a smaller lens, because nearby were a bunch of frolicking American toads, which dwarfed the least sandpiper and which would have made a good size comparison.
Photo note: I used a Pentax K200D, with SMC 1000mm reflex lens during April 2009.
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