The whole truth
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| Quote (dhogaza @ May 06 2013,20:56) | Your photo looks fine, BTW. Light's less harsh than when I took mine (in the midst of this record-setting high temp and high-intensity sun weather we've had).
And mine was on the east end of the second canal on the right (north). Scott Carpenter apparently photographed it for some time before I showed up mid-morning.
black-bellieds are easy enough to find in singles and in isolation. The brits call them grey plover because apparently they don't (or almost never) see them in breeding plumage. We catch some of them in breeding plumage.
But on all of ocean shores, where I was playing with many flocks of multiple thousands of shorebirds, I only saw one black-bellied, and it was by itself.
Bottle beach had maybe a half-dozen - a place where 100,00 shorebirds aren't unknown. |
Thanks for letting me know that my photo looks fine. When I took that photo there was some late afternoon-early evening cloud cover which made the lighting less harsh.
It's probably safe to say that it's the same bittern as yours. When I first saw it it was at the east end of the second canal and then it walked over to the first canal. After awhile it flew over by the pond with lots of stumps and logs but later it returned to the east end of the second canal and again walked over to the west end of the first canal. The other bittern I heard was along the west edge of the pond with stumps and logs, about 100 yards or so from the road.
The name Scott Carpenter sounds a bit familiar. I've talked to lots of people at RNWR over the years but I don't know if I've met him.
I'm going to have to get myself to the coast again one of these days and over to the Ocean Shores area to see lots of shorebirds. I mostly go to the GPNF these days and to RNWR and a few other places. Those shorebirds you photographed are beautiful and just too cute.
Yeah, this weather is amazing. I keep listening for the usual sound of rain on my roof, but so far so good, and the forecast for the next several days looks good too.
It's a shame that shorebirds are diminishing. Diminishing numbers is the trend for many species, and it's depressing.
I enjoy seeing your pictures and the pictures posted by others, and I appreciate the info about the shorebirds and the places you're seeing them.
ETA: a missing 'the'
Edited by The whole truth on May 07 2013,00:20
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