Shorebirds Corpus
Went to Corpus yesterday. Here’s some winter shorebirds.
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Hornsby
13 Species of shorebirds at Hornsby this morning, plus first of season (for me) of these quackers.
Shorebirds Class Field Trip 2022
I came up with 113 species on Corpus FT (for my personal list).
Gulls in Corpus
Here are the gulls we did see. Can you ID without your book?
Slender-billed Curlew
We recently read a very good book called “Orison for a Curlew”(Orison = prayer). It’s about the Slender-billed Curlew of Europe. Some of the narrative took us to places we had birded in Bulgaria. I highly recommend!! https://www.goodreads.com/…/27278141-orison-for-a-curlew Regretfully, on a Bulgaria birding site, I just saw this article on the end of the story….
“Frosty” Shorebirds
Here’s a distant photo which illustrates how beneficial looking for paler hues can be. From Hornsby last night. These 2 Wilson’s Phalaropes really stick out. There’s also a really pale sandpiper to the left of Phalaropes which I did not notice at the time, but I’m thinking Semipalmated due to how “frosty” it looks compared…
Migration at Granger Lake
With North wind coming on I decided to go watch for migrants at Granger Lake. I was not disappointed!!
