Bird of the Week: Western Sandpiper
We’re continuing with the hard ones, the sandpipers. This week it’s Alaska’s most common peep, the Western Sandpiper.
Western Sandpiper Flock, Hartney Bay, Cordova
Truly spectacular numbers of Western Sandpipers move through southcentral Alaska in spring migration. This flock was photographed at the Copper River Shorebird Festival in Cordova, Alaska.
The birds hang out in Hartney Bay to re-fuel, foraging for in the mud and resting.
Western Sandpiper with a Prize, Hartney Bay, Cordova
This shot was taken by WC while prone in the mud of Hartney Bay. Not a task for those of a delicate sensibility.
Camera geek stuff: f5.7, 1/400, ISO200.
For more bird photos, please visit Frozen Feather Images.
Bristol you’re a young ass,dumb ass
Unwed lttle mother gonna make yourself obscure some day
You got egg on your face
You’re a big disgrace
Touting abstinence all over the place’
We will,we will Mock you
sing it
We will,we will Mock you.
Mama Grizfter is no longer on life support from Fake Noise,either. The hits just keep acoming.
The jokes are rolling in.
Palin is also listed as an expert on abstinence on the Web site of Single Source Speakers, a booking agency.
From Vanity Fair Mag.
Yup! That abstinence thingy really works good!
While I love the bird photos, I wonder where Jeanne Devon’s quirky take on events in Alaska and beyond has disappeared to. I’d love to see her take on this week’s Supreme Court decision. Surely they matter in Alaska as well as elsewhere in the country.
Oops. I mean “Supreme Court decisions.”
Same sex marriage is legal in all 50 states. What a good week for normal human beings.
THEE END IZ NEER!! Oh my f#$@%$# gawd!! Little Miss Save it til you are married is knocked up again!! Apparently abstaining from sex doesn’t mean what it means for some people. Way to be a “role” model<Bristol.
Scotus upholds ACA. Scalia goes apoplectic. Life is good.
It is hump day. Got any birds with humps? (Besides the double breasted mattress thrasher.)
Thanks for that,WC. We have dozens of killdeers on our gravel roads and cattle feedlots,but I have never stumbled upon one after dark.
Mike, they migrate at night, when there are fewer aerial predators. They land at early light to forage and rest. They sleep on the mudflats where they forage or, if the weather is really foul, huddled up against each other for warmth. The last photo at this link gives you an idea:
https://wickershamsconscience.wordpress.com/…/birds…/
/WC
Foraging must be good for a sandpiper to appear that chubby(last picture) Ant idea where these li’l buggers roost at night?
Oh Sandy boy,the pipes,the pipes are calling……. They look similar to timberdoodles in flight.