 Black-bellied Plovers |
 21 Marbled Godwit |
 Ring-billed Gulls |
 Takeoff! |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper |
 Parasitic Jaeger (adult, light morph) |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper |
 Herring Gull - my good friend Alan Contreras calls these oddly-moling gulls "uuuuugly gulls" :) |
 Herring Gull with a white neck ring. Garbage, or odd molt? |
 Adult light morph Parasitic Jaeger |
 Adult light morph Parasitic Jaeger |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper |
 Bubbles along Lake Superior |
 Distant peeps going by |
 Distant peeps going by |
 Rock in the Water |
 Lake Superior Rocks |
 Under the Canal Park lift bridge |
 Waves |
 Driftwood along Lake Superior |
 Driftwood along Lake Superior |
 Least Sandpiper and Semipalmated Sandpiper |
 Least Sandpiper flying by |
 Least Sandpiper |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper and Least Sandpiper |
 Semipalmated Sandpipers eating along the beach |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper showing some semipalmated (partially-webbed feet) |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper stretching! |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper |
 Shorebirds coming head-on! |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper |
 Cooper's Hawk patrolling Park Point |
 Bubbles and a feather along the edge of Lake Superior |
 Butterfly |
 Prepping for the early morning... An owl mug that was given to me for my birthday last week |
 Enjoying an early morning on the lake |
 My tool of choice for scanning the skies for raptors, and the shores for shorebirds. I'm a Pentax guy |
 Rose |
 Rosehip |
 White Admiral |
 American Kestrel |
 Bald Eagle |
 Can you find the Buff-breasted Sandpiper? |
 Buff-breasted Sandpiper... Here it is!! |
 Common Mergansers |
 Semipalmated Plover |
 Semipalmated Plover |
 Sunrise on the lake |
 left to right - Semipalmated Plover, Least Sandpiper, Sanderling, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Sanderling |
 Back-to-front (Semipalmated Plover, Sanderling, Buff-breasted Sandpiper) |
 Sanderlings zipping by |
 Sanderlings zipping by |
 Baird's Sandpiper (left) and Semipalmated Sandpiper (right) |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper in front... my gosh, who is that??? |
 It's a Sanderling! |
 Sanderling (left) and Semipalmated Sandpiper (right) |
 Sanderling (left) and Semipalmated Sandpiper (right)... a little scenic shot |
 Sanderling |
 Sanderling, giving the wing a good stretch |
 Sanderling |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper with an ant! |
 Sanderling |
 Semipalmated Plovers |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper - showing off some of that semipalmation |
 Migration is a dangerous time for shorebirds. Hunkering down against a washed-up log |
 Canada Geese (the lower left bird was significantly thinner necked/shorter winged) - possible "lesser" |
 Distant ship in the morning |
 Half of a sunrise |
 This morning's sunrise |
 Adult Bald Eagle - many birds migrate with open beaks... they're working very hard! |
 Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
 Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
 Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
 Buff-breasted Sandpiper flying by |
 Can you find the Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
 Buff-breasted Sandpiper flying by |
 Buff-breasted Sandpiper laying-low in the sand |
 Common Mergansers riding a gradual wave |
 Common Mergansers |
 Common Mergansers |
 Common Mergansers |
 Sanderling |
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 Sanderling |
 Semipalmated Plover and a Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
 Semipalmated Plover dancing around, and a freaked-out Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
 1 Least Sandpiper, 2 Sanderlings and 2 Semipalmated Sandpipers... can you tell them apart? |
 Dunlin |
 Dunlin looking at the camera |
 Dunlin with a little scratch |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper looking at the reflection |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper... this little bird had a stressed right wing |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper |
 Baird's Sandpiper (right) with Sanderlings |
 Ring-billed Gull |
 Ring-billed Gull, splashing and drinking |
 Ring-billed Gull |
 Red-necked Grebe |
 Semipalmated Plover |
 Sunrise |
 Northern Flicker |
 Northern Flicker |
 Northern Flickers |
 My brother Nick releasing the Pectoral Sandpiper |
 My brother Nick releasing the Pectoral Sandpiper |
 My brother Nick releasing the Pectoral Sandpiper |
 Go Pectoral Sandpiper, go! |
 Pectoral Sandpiper |
 Grasses |
 American Kestrel coming head-on |
 American Kestrel |
 Sanderling running along the beach |
 Sanderling scratching its face |
 Sanderling through driftwood |
 Sanderling |
 Sanderling |
 Sunrise |
 American Golden Plover |
 Birders... part of the group of 14 birders that attended the first fall Duluth Audubon bird hike! |
 Holding an injured Ring-billed Gull. We brought it to Wildwoods Rehabilitation of Duluth :) |
 Holding an injured Ring-billed Gull. We brought it to Wildwoods Rehabilitation of Duluth :) |
 American Golden Plover (left) and Black-bellied Plover (right) |
 American Golden Plover (bottom right) with Black-bellied Plovers |
 American Golden Plover with Sanderlings |
 American Golden Plover with Sanderlings |
 American Golden Plover... can't touch this! |
 American Kestrel |
 American Redstart |
 Baird's Sandpiper |
 Baird's Sandpiper |
 Black-bellied Plover |
 Common Loon |
 Magnolia Warbler |
 Magnolia Warbler |
 Magnolia Warbler |
 Osprey |
 Sanderlings with an American Golden Plover |
 Sanderlings around the American Golden Plover |
 Palm Warbler |
 Palm Warbler |
 Driftwood |
 Least Flycatcher |
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 clinging to the gull feather on a windy day |
 Black-bellied Plovers |
 Shorebirds coming in for a landing |
 Wood in the sand |
 American Golden Plovers |
 Merlins playing around during the Duluth Audubon Autumn birding hike |
 Merlin during the Duluth Audubon Autumn birding hike |
 Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
 Caspian Tern |
 Cape May Warbler |
 Franklin's Gull |
 Franklin's Gull |
 Oh look, a fine assortment of Ring-billed Gulls here |
 Ring-billed Gull |
 Ring-billed Gull... you lookin' at me? |
 Sabine's Gull... one of the sexiest gulls around! |
 Sabine's Gull |
 Gulls Galore! |
 Robbye jump-starting Jaegerfest |
 American Golden Plover (left) and Black-bellied Plover (right) |
 American Golden Plover (bottom right) with two Black-bellied Plovers |
 American Golden Plover with a Sanderling. Note the plover's mottled rump. |
 American Golden Plover with a Sanderling |
 American Golden Plover... can't touch this! |
 Black-bellied Plover |
 American Golden Plover with the Sanderling buddies |
 Sanderlings and American Golden Plover |
 Least Flycatcher |
 Snow Geese, with Cackling Geese |
 Birders |
 Sunrise during Jaegerfest |
 American Golden Plover (background) with other plover (foreground) |
 American Golden Plovers in flight |
 American Golden Plovers in flight |
 Black-bellied Plover |
 European Starling |
 Fox Sparrow |
 Scanning the lake |
 Savannah Sparrow |
 Gull Feather |
 American Golden Plover (behind) and interesting plover (front) |
 Plover |
 Plover |
 Plover |
 Plover |
 Harlequin Duck flying by |
 Meadowlark |
 Cackling Goose (left) and Canada Goose (right) |
 2nd-winter Herring Gull |
 Merlin |
 Merlin |
 Merlin. This is the bugger who can been causing the ruckus! |
 Ring-billed Gull... stretching |
 Ring-billed Gull preening |
 Ring-billed Gull preening |
 Ring-billed Gull chasing the Merlin away |
 Sunrise |
 Sunrise |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper (left) and two Baird's Sandpipers |
 Baird's Sandpipers |
 Baird's Sandpiper |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper |
 Jaeger |
 Jaeger |
 Jaeger |
 Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
 Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
 Buff-breasted Sandpiper behind a Semipalmated Sandpiper |
 Marbled Godwits |
 Parasitic Jaeger |
 Parasitic Jaeger |
 Ring-billed Gull |
 Ring-billed Gull |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper preening |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper fluffing up after preening |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper |
 Semipalmated Sandpiper jumping around |
 Parasitic Jaeger |