UPDATE: more photos at the bottom from October 12, 2014 (now in Basic Plumage but primary molt not quite complete):
This adult Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) - presumeably of the nominate race - was found by Mel Cooksey in Oso Bay, Corpus Christi, Nueces county, Texas on August 10, 2014; this is the first documented record for Texas:
UPDATE: more photos from Swantner Park on October 12, 2014 (now in Basic Plumage but primary molt not quite complete):
