A fellow Nikon photographer at Doran Beach kindly told me where to look for the Snowy Plovers - a small shorebird that winters in this area.
Snowy Plover running along the sand, Doran Beach
Snowy Plover, Doran Beach
Size perspective: here's a snowy plover in front of resting group of sanderlings, Doran Beach
Snowy Plover digging in the sand
Different view, snowy plover
Sanderlings feeding, mudflat area Doran Beach
Willets land among a large resting flock of marbled godwits, mudflats, Doran Beach
Black Turnstones join the other birds on the mudflats
Back at home, a red-shafted flicker shows up at the feeders, and deck railing seeds.
