Red Knots

Thursday, August 1st

Red Knots

Today I had a small window of opportunity to do some birding. I chose to follow-up on a posting by Dave McQuade about American Avocets on Ft Myers Beach.  As I have dipped on the species so far this year it was logical to see if the avocets had stuck around. Well, I didn't really expect to have had them stick around and I was right.  That is as far as their not being on site from 9 am to 10 am.  Did find a few good birds though such as a quartet of feeding Red Knots.                                                                                                      

Red Knots

Willet and Red Knot

Black Skimmer

Sanderling

Ruddy Turnstone