 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 |