tags: birds, Sanderling, Calidris alba, ornithology, Image of the Day
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tags: sanderling, Calidris alba, birds, Image of the Day
Sanderling, Calidris alba, in the early morning light on Thanksgiving Day.
Image: Dave Rintoul, KSU [wallpaper size].
The photographer writes: A sanderling, taken on the beach at Bald Head Island this morning. The fact that this…
Very pretty! One of the nicest things about visiting California is that sometimes we see the little sanderlings or perhaps least sandpipers running up and down the beach to pursue and then flee the waves.
These are the most fun birds to watch! For their small size, they seem to run faster than they can handle it, and keep moving around. This is a great picture, it is not easy to catch them at so close distance.