Bird of the Week: Solitary Sandpiper
Another sandpiper that doesn’t have much to do with sand, the Solitary Sandpiper nests in trees in the boreal forest.
Solitary Sandpiper, Chena Hot Springs Road, Fairbanks
There aren’t many tree-nesting sandpipers, which makes the Solitary pretty unique. It gets its name because it’s different in another way, too: it migrates alone, not in a flock.
This is a slender, fairly small, dark sandpiper, about 8 inches long. Its upper parts are dark olive-brown, finely spotted with whitish-buff to cinnamon-white. It has a white throat and belly, yellow legs and that distinctive narrow white eye-ring. The bird’s dark underwings contrast with white belly in flight.
Camera geek stuff: f11, 1/250, ISO640.
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http://dakotafreepress.com/2015/07/17/alaska-expands-medicaid-will-get-150m-stimulus/
Bout time Alaska joined the 21st century. Good on Guv Walker and pffftttts at wingnuts.
Canada’s Trans-Canada outfit was interviewed by Bloomberg News and stated that the primary purpose of the XL pipeline was to get a “glut of crude” out of the midwest so that fuel prices could be increased 10 to 15 cents per gallon. That does not suggest that the XL pipeline is in the interests of the US or South Dakota residents. The enormous tax benefits claimed in the pre-hearing hype has not turned up with other pipelines in reality. Also, the enormous energy demands of the pipeline are likely to increase electric costs for all homeowners in this region.
The reality of Keystone XL pipeline. Not about jobs. Not about energy independwence for America-it is all for a foreign entity’s bottom line. America,you have been had,again!
Thanks, WC.