We picked the best weekend of the year to go to Grays harbor and Ocean Springs Washington.
I think every clam digger was out there on Saturday!
A line of cars and people in every direction - filled with clam diggers - except us.
Semipalmated plovers with a long billed dowitcher
Plovers and sandpipers flying in
Too cute.
It was nice seeing them hang out together.
This little plover wanted to know what I was up to.
This one is the shortbilled Dowitcher - can he put his head any further into the sand? - Yes he can!
Western Sandpiper
She finally got some lunch!
1 comment:
Lovely pics! However, the big bird you've called a Long-billed Dowitcher is actually a Marbled Godwit (note the orange based, dark-tipped and slightly upturned bill, the heavy breast barring that is complete across the breast (not just short barring at the sides) and the approximately threefold greater size difference relative to the Semipalmated Plovers.
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