Quiz pic (tricky!)

A new bird for me today . . . anyone want to see if they can identify it? Sorry the pic isn't too good!

Resin

Is this strictly found on your side of the pond?

I'm just guessing if Resin hasn't seen it before, it's not normally found in the UK... Most shorebirds travel quite a bit though.
Is it in the genus Calidris?

Red Knot??

My line of reasoning: first for you = exotic. "Quiz pic (tricky!)" = not a bird quickly associated with water - a desert bird. So I googled: Sand-grouse, and quickly learned there were more kinds of Sand-grouse than I had expected.
I've studied the picture and can not decide if it could be a Sand-grouse. There just isn't enough detail in the picture. I would like to see more bill detail.

Resin, am I any where close.

No-one has got it right yet, but . . .

Pelletory: Yep, correct!

Claypa: Correct, it isn't normally found in the UK. Not quite right in that it is a species that doesn't travel so much - so much so that this one is only the 5th ever found in Britain (so I was just one of about a couple of thousand people who turned up to see it!).

Gras: Good reasoning, yes, it is a desert bird, though not a sandgrouse (and it does usually occur in wetlands in deserts, such as the Iraq marshes). The bill is black, slender, medium length. Also what you can't tell from the pic, is that it is standing in fairly long vegetation . . . it has very long, vivid yellow legs.

Unfortunately the bird was too distant for a decent photo with my cheapo camera.

Resin

Another pic, awful quality, but it does show the legs

White-tailed Lapwing?

White-tailed Plover,Vanellus leucurus

Yep!

White-tailed Lapwing, a.k.a. White-tailed Plover.

It is at Caerlaverock WWT Reserve, in southwest Scotland (WWT = Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust). Still present today.

Resin

I found a picture taken yesterday:

http://www.birdnetinformation.co.uk/

Congratulations guys!

I just checked out the picture at the link claypa posted. It gave me an entirely different perspective of the bird. Resin, there is no doubt you know birds, but you could definitely use a better camera and some instruction in photography.

Gary

Too right ;-) Can't afford anything better, though.

Also didn't help that at the time I was watching it (fairly late in the day), the sun had moved round and the bird was backlit. The second pic was taken from a different viewpoint with better angle on the sun, but three times further away (about 200-250m).

Resin