With forecasts from the week predicting this weekend to be a bust, I'm so glad they were wrong! This weekend the humidity felt non-existant, with warm temperatures by day and cool and pleasant by night. It's pretty perfect, and I was not totally bummed out with trips to Plumb Beach and Dead Horse Bay just past hight tide and a tropical storm looming off shore.
Waves were tame and the shorebirds frolicked in them as they lapped up at the shoreline. No complaints it seems from humans or birds.
Enjoy...
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| Most peeps were sanderlings, and they were very handsome! |
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| Some had remnants of the rufus, red color they would have in their breeding plumage. |
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| A common tern and a laughing gull. Caspian and royal terns had been reported in previous dates, I had no sightings of them. |
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| While checking out the tern and gulls, I noticed a large bird coming over the marsh- an Osprey! He came close, hovered and then... |
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| He splashed right into the small channel in front of me, that leads into the marsh. He came up empty taloned, but I was pretty impressed at how he was 98% submerged and then came up and flew right back out. |
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| Better luck next time, bud. |
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| A laughing gull pushes his weight around to the smaller sanderlings. |
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| He seemed pretty proud of himself. |
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| Cute little sanderling! |
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| This was actually an aggressive stance, used to chase other sanderlings out of where this individual was feeding. |
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| A sanderling still molting. |
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| Another funny molting sanderling. |
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| Pretty pretty sure this is good for a semipalmated sandpiper. |
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| Same bird as above. |
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| Juvenile common tern at Dead Horse Bay. |
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| A group of sanderlings flew in from across the chennal, possibly the same ones I saw before. |
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