Shorebirds & Sandpipers
Black-necked Stilt (a rarity here in Upstate NY)
Black-necked Stilt
Black-necked Stilt
Dunlin flock
Dunlin flock
Dunlin in his best breeding plumage
Dunlin - male in black-bellied breeding plumage
Dunlin - breeding
Dunlin and Sanderlin
Greater Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Red Knot
3 Sanderling with 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper
Sanderling and Semipalmated Sandpiper running in the surf
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Red Knot twins
2 Red Knot taking a snooze with a Dunlin
Dunlin bookends with 2 Red Knot in the middle of the shorebird sandwich
Ruddy Turnstone
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalmated Plover
Dunlin showing off his droopy bill
Ruddy Turnstone
American Avocet - a wonderful rarity here in Upstate NY - greatest bill in the bird world!
American Avocet - look at those upturned bills!
American Avocets sharing a secret
American Avocet
Baird's Sandpiper enjoying bfast
Baird's Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper showing off his yellow legs
Least Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Long-billed Dowitcher
Semipalmated Sandpiper enjoying insects on the Sodus Point pier.
Black-bellied Plover in non-breeding plumage
Greater Yellowlegs taking flight
Killdeer
Least Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper with her bright yellow legs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Marbled Godwit -a rarity in NY ... what an amazing bill
Marbled Godwit
Marbled Godwit standing out among the Ring-billed Gulls
Marbled Godwit and his amazing bicolored bill
Semipalmated Plover
Spotted Sandpiper - no spots though, in non-breeding plumage
Greater Yellowlegs (right) and Lesser Yellowlegs (left) ... now I know how to tell them apart!
Red Phalarope ... fed just feet away from a busy road along south end of Sodus Bay for an entire afternoon
Greater Yellowlegs - reflecting on life as a shorebird
