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Showing posts with label short billed dowitcher. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Curlews and other birds at Famosa Slough


The migrating shorebirds and ducks are coming in.  I saw this long-billed curlew there:



He was very itchy:



This willet was itchy, too:


Quite a few stilts, including a couple juveniles.  Perhaps the juveniles are from the nest I observed a month or so ago:



Marbled godwit:


Short-billed dowitchers, looks like two juveniles in this photo:


More dowitchers:

Least sandpipers:



Northern shovelers, blue-winged teal and stilts:



And, a whimbrel: