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Rich Miller | all galleries >> Collections of bird photos >> Santa Barbara, Sept 2005 > Western Sandpiper in action
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29-SEP-2005

Western Sandpiper in action

I originally thought this bird - and the ones in the next three photos - were Sanderlings, but Allen Chartier corrected this mistake, calling them Western Sandpipers, citing the absence of a black shoulder patch prominent in Sanderlings but not in Western Sandpipers.

Canon EOS 20D
1/500s f/16.0 at 1000.0mm iso400 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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