Snipe
Here’s one I don’t recall seeing so boldly out in the open before, much less photographed in gorgeous sunlight!!

Here’s one I don’t recall seeing so boldly out in the open before, much less photographed in gorgeous sunlight!!

Here’s my Shorebird Scorecard for the last 5 weeks. 21 species at Hornsby and 34 of 38 regularly occurring species overall. Did pretty well at Hornsby: over 8 visits during April and May this year, I averaged 11.9 species/visit. Best birds were Upland Sandpipers on every visit, Hudsonian Godwits on 2 visits and 5 Ruddy…
Ok, here’s a mystery bird for the current shorebird class. (if you’re not in the class feel free to email me if you figure out the answer). I recently emailed a demonstration of how to take a stab at identifying distant shorebirds in bad photographs. Here are some really bad photographs (distant digi-scoped). But if…
Here’s a first of season gull for me that showed up at Hornsby this morning. If you can ID, maybe you’d enjoy taking the I Don’t Do Gulls Gulls Class which starts in November?. If you can’t ID, maybe you’d enjoy taking the I Don’t Do Gulls Gulls Class which starts in November? If you…
Ok, here’s today’s quiz photo!!! How many can you ID? Taken at Hornsby last night. Hint: there are 6 species.
17 species of shorebird this morning at Hornsby. Ties my personal best at Hornsby and I just missed the BB Plover that was reported. Migrating Franklin’s Gulls and White-faced Ibis also cool.