As I was walking down the trail at the Bass Ponds to see the Ruff at about 3:30 every person walking up the hill had seen the bird. Just before I got there the Ruff and other shorebirds were flushed by an airplane and relocated at various locations. I stood with many other birders for over an hour and could not relocate the Ruff. It was definitely not a total loss because there were hundreds of other shorebirds including:
100's of Lesser Yellowlegs and Pectoral Sandpipers;
dozens of Greater Yellowlegs;
at least 10 Long-billed Dowitcher;
2 Semipalmated Plover;
at least 6 Dunlin;
1 Wilson's Phalarope