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Juvenile long-billed dowitcher casually strolling down the sand bar with a couple of least sandpipers for company.
Juvenile Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus )
Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)
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Never mind those nice photos you see in magazines or the illustrations in field guides.
This is the typical view you gt of a warbler as it flits around in a bush.
Usually the are at the tops of trees and even harder to see.
Having a water feature in your yard will bring them down and hopefully you can get a better look.
This is a fall plumage yellow rumped warbler.
First year female migrating during fall. From my fall 2010 archives. Cochran Shoals, Chattahoochee NRA. Atlanta, Georgia. The back-lighting along the river's edge made photography challenging, but I like the effect here, and the sharpness of the head. Note the bi-colored beak, dark on top and yellow on the bottom, typical of this warbler species. Birds that forage often in direct sunlight benefit from a dark upper mandible as there is much less light reflected back to their eyes from the mandible as opposed to a lighter color. With less glare from their beak they can see and forage more successfully.
Below is a male Hooded Warbler also from along the river this past fall.
Happy New Year!!!
Not sure whether Summer or Scarlet. I thought it was Scarlet, but other images gave me doubt as to which one.
The number of birds in NYC is on the decline and I am trying to document and see as many as I can.
All pictures shot with Sony a6700 + Sony 200-600G Lens in NYC.
My yard is still wet from Ida. At least they are enjoying the pooling water.
Yard birds
Sussex County, NJ
I only got out on 12 days, actually, 11 days. The Snow Day was fired out my patio door, in my jammies.
Not a good month.
Photographed 01 September 2019, Race Point - Beach, Race Point, Provincetown, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Wilson's Phalaropes feed in a dizzy circle to bring food up from the bottom. They eat insects and crustaceans, mostly brine flies and shrimp.
These birds nest in California, but in this video are sporting their winter plumage. In summer the brightly colored females build a nest and attract a male who stays and incubates the eggs while the female migrates south.