White-faced Ibis in Carp

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Just kidding




Over the past few days, work took me near some shorebird spots. Unfortunately we haven't even hit mid July yet, and the results showed:


Amherst KFN property:

Long-tailed Duck
Tundra Swan
various Puddle Ducks
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Common Goldeneye
Greater Yellowlegs  (my personal first for the fall)
Lesser Yellowlegs - ~8
Least Sandpiper ~20
Wilson's Phalarope - 2


Presqu'ile Beaches:

Least Sandpiper ~40
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 1 (my personal first for the fall)
Lesser Yellowlegs - 6

Townsend Sewage Lagoons:

Least Sandpiper: ~75
Semipalmated Sandpiper ~5
Lesser Yellowlegs ~7
Solitary Sandpiper - 2
Pied-billed Grebe - 1
(+ a number of expected ducks)

Rock Point PP :

Least Sandpiper - 5
Lesser Yellowlegs - 2
(started to think I shouldn't have made the trip)

Mosaic Ponds:

Lesser Yellowlegs - 1
(yep)


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So the above birding reports, over two days, seem pretty dull... But here's the catch. I have a new camera to toy around with, and it is the ultimate in documentation needs. Check this out: (rapid fire mode):

Tundra Swan on Amherst

Crazy Crazy storm on Amherst that just about wiped me off the map. Wasn't on radar when I started walking out?!?!

actually looking better than a week ago

cuteness alert!!! baby C mergies

badger badger badger, mushroom mushroom... Snaaaaakeeeee

Code Yellow on cute-alert

Least Sands - going south before you knew it was summer

ooh! Halloween pennant!

ahhhh.. lots of halloween pennants......

Flash butterfly attack... one of my fav's - Acadian Hairstreak

I call it - crazy trees

Killdeer on sod farm - too soon?

Townsend with habitat is a beautiful thing... even if it is just 1 corner

Cute alert gon crazy!

The only thing I photo'd at Rock Point - silver spotted skipper

So anyways, that's less than 1/3rd of the things I snapped "record shots" of while goofing around..  Should be fun to keep it up!  But don't worry,  this random crazy photo style blog post is a 1 time deal... or is it.......