Lots of oystercatchers at the north beach at Fort Desoto. Including the first one that has the TO bands on his legs. I have pictures of him as far back as 2011.
A ruddy turnstone still in his summer feathers.
Two little plovers. A piping plover on top and a semipalmated plover on the bottom.
A mom and juvenile sandwich tern.
An almost grown black skimmer taking a break on the sand.
Pelicans resting on the shore.
Linking to My Corner of the World.
Pretty flowers on the trail to the beach.
A few of the usual birds on the beach.
I looked back as I was leaving the parking lot and saw the cardinal checking himself out on my side mirror.
A northern parula was the only bird in the woods in early April.
An osprey checking me out.
A pelican flying by and a common bird soaring over the beach in the summer, a frigatebird.
The storm clouds were moving in at Fort Desoto.
Semipalmated plover
Marbled godwits (the avocet photobombed the last shot).
Royal terns
A few shorebirds on the shore. Only down here in Florida we call it a beach. So really, they should be called beachbirds. Found on the “beach” on the Courtney Campbell Causeway.
Dowitchers taking a nap.
Wilson’s plover not much taller than the grass.
The sandwich terns are back on the beach for a while.
Juvenile sandwich tern.
Semipalmated plover.
Dowitcher cruising by.
Gotta itch.
He’s so cute!
Laughing gull missing a foot.
Willet trying to be cute.
A very young black skimmer taking a nap.
Same ole thing on the beach in late August.
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A palm warbler sitting on the beach.
Semipalmated plover digging for crabs.
Keeping an eye on me.
Black bellied plover walking around in the dunes. His belly is only black during breeding season.
Shorebirds along the edge of the lagoon. Mostly godwits with a few willits mixed in.
“What are you hiding?” I said to the ibis.
He had a crab in his beak but was reluctant to show me.
“Sailing takes me away!”
A beautiful Sunday afternoon on the beach at Fort Desoto.
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