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| Trude | profile | all galleries >> bolsa_chica_wetlands >> bolsa_chica_in_fall | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 Willet in pickleweed welcomes you to fall |
 Long-billed Curlew with down-curved bill |
 Marbled Godwit with two-colored bill |
 Dowitcher |
 Western Sandpiper |
 Black-bellied Plover |
 Shorebirds aren't just "doing nothing"! |
 They stand on one leg (Willet) |
 They take baths and flap their wings (Dowitcher) |
 They scratch (Marbled Godwit) |
 They molt from alternate/breeding to basic/wintering plumage (Western Sandpiper) |
 They lose feathers! |
 They stir up trouble (Marbled Godwit) |
 They communicate (Green Heron) |
 They fly (Reddish Egret) |
 They capture food (Dowitcher and polychaete) |
 Others don't capture food |
 Highlight of day was this huge flock of sandpipers |
 Flock landed on the edge of water to bathe |
 Flock then retreated to rest on the sand dune |
 Discoveries everywhere you look! |
 In the water, cordgrass in flower |
 Pickleweed in flower |
 Batis with characteristic lemon-lime color |
 Silvery beach bur |
 Up on the trails, mulefat in flower |
 Telegraph weed in flower |
 Pickleweed with Willet |
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