American Oystercatcher |
Bahama Mockingbird singing |
Bahama Mockingbird singing |
Bahama Mockingbird |
Bahama Mockingbird showing streaked throat |
Bahama Mockingbird |
Bahama Mockingbird |
Bahama Mockingbird |
Bahama Mockingbird |
Bahama Mockingbird - fluffed up |
Bahama Mockingbird - sleeked down |
Bahama Mockingbird |
Bahama Mockingbird |
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher |
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher |
Brown Pelican |
Brown Pelican |
Brown Pelican |
Brown Pelican |
Brown Pelican |
Brown Pelican |
Burrowing Owl |
Burrowing Owl nest burrow beside sand road |
Pink flamingos aren't really that pink (sorry, Divine) |
Least sandpiper - legs in shadow |
Least sandpiper - yellow-green legs clearly visible |
Least sandpiper |
Lesser Yellowlegs |
Lesser Yellowlegs |
Distant Merlin in the bush |
Neotropic Cormorants (I thought the third from left was double-crested at first) |
Neotropic Cormorants |
Northern Mockingbird - seemed less common along the coastline than Bahama Mockingbird (but more common in town) |
shy Palm Warbler |
Remember to watch for these guys - 5 piping plovers in flight, Salt Pond Hill in the distance |
Short-Billed Dowitcher |
Snowy Plover on the road, inland |
Spotted Sandpiper, characteristic "wingtips down" flight |
Spotted Sandpiper in favorite beach habitat (lots of cover) |
Whimbrel |
Whimbrel |
Whimbrel |
Whimbrel |
Whimbrel ID challenge - we thought this one was a willet until it turned its head |
Whimbrel just after landing, showing wing pattern |
White-Cheeked Pintail adults |
White-Cheeked Pintail with ducklings |
White-Cheeked Pintail ducklings |
White-Cheeked Pintail family with Lesser Yellowlegs |
The White-Cheeked Pintail adults flew a few moments later, having stashed the ducklings in the bush. |
One of the few Willets we saw |
heron ID challenge in back-lighting |
Easier to ID with head turned - immature Yellow-Crowned Night Heron |
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron adult |
sunset along the lighthouse canal |