Tuesday May 5th
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| A Short-billed Dowitcher with several Red Knots |
Early this morning I found time to spend enjoying the bird life feeding in the shallows and mud at Bunche Beach Preserve.
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| American Oystercatcher |
Found hundreds of shorebirds beginning to sport there breeding colors including Red Knots, Short-billed Dowitchers, Marbled Godwits, Willets, Dunlins, Black-bellied Plovers, Sanderlings, Semipalmated Sandpipers, Least Sandpipers, Ruddy Turnstones, and a pair of American Oystercatchers.
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| Marbled Godwit |
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A White-morphed Reddish Egrets.
The white-morphed are not as common here as we find further south in the Keys |
One species I was interested in locating were
White-rumped Sandpipers and I was lucky to see one as it flew off. Another migrant spotted were a couple of noisy
Bobolinks passing over head.
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A Short-billed Dowitcher in his breeding colors
Breed in sub-arctic regions of Alaska and central Canada |
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A Male Black-bellied Plover.
A very common species that breeds in the high arctic
from Siberia east to Baffin Island in Canada |
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Wilson's Plover
A local breeder on the salt flats in this preserve |
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| A female Black-bellied Plover |
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Dunlin.
This species is very abundant and breeds in sub-arctic
and arctic regions of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia |
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Least Sandpiper.
Will be heading off to their breeding grounds in sub-arctic tundra
and northern boreal forests in Alaska and Canada |
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| Male Red Knot and Short-billed Dowitcher |
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| Male Red Knot |
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| Male Red Knot |
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| Red-shouldered Hawk |
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| Willet |
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| Ruddy Turnstone |
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Semipalmated Sandpiper
A very abundant species that breeds in sub-arctic regions
from Siberia to Newfoundland |
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Red Knots
Are very long distance travelers. They fly to the high Arctic
for breeding from their wintering locations spread across the planet.
Some from as far away as
New Zealand, Argentina, Africa and even Florida |
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