calidris alba

Sanderling

Working the tideline in their normal busy way

Can you pick out the larger, darker Dunlin(s) among the many Western Sandpipers packed together at a high tide roost? Extra credit: Pick out the Sanderling(s).

Bécasseau sanderling - Calidris alba - Sanderling

Nice to get so close on the beach in Lanzarote

a group of sanderlings, with a few purple sandpipers and a dunlin, and with some Eurasian oystercatchers in the background

I could have made a close up of this image but decided I wanted to make it into a bird in landscape type photo. The background is water from waves crashing in over slightly lover coral rocks than the one the bird is standing on.

A little more close-up

Sanderling

The winter of 2011/12 was very cold where I live with the sand and mudflats of my local river estuary freezing hard at every low tide. Many Sanderlings and other waders had to spend every available minute feeding. I was sitting at the high tide line watching this individual feeding just a short...

This lone Sanderling was part of a very large flock of waders (mostly Red Knot and Dunlin) feeding beside the coast road in south west Cumbria this morning. Even by Sanderling standards its movements were pretty frantic as it dashed madly from one shell to another in an attempt to find something...

Sanderlings waiting for the tide to turn

Sanderling in Penzance at high tide

Small part of a big flock heading up the Dee estuary. Tucked in at the rear was a solitary Sanderling, another lifer for me!!

This sanderling was among a group of birds feeding on the rocks in the Ocean City, MD inlet.

Sanderling (Calidris alba) Sexes similar. Sanderlings in various stages of molt from winter plumage to breeding plumage. San Luis Pass, Brazoria County, Texas, USA. Situated on the south-western end of Galveston Island, barrier island. Gulf of Mexico on the exposed side and West Bay on the...

Sanderling (Calidris alba) Sexes similar. This one is almost in full breeding plumage. Bathing in fresh rainwater in a depression. San Luis Pass, Brazoria County, Texas, USA. Situated on the south-western end of Galveston Island, a barrier island. Gulf of Mexico on the exposed side and West Bay...

Watching these little waders speeding around always reminds me of the "Benny Hill theme music", Originally recorded in 1963 by Boots Randolph and titled Yakety Sax Grab an earful here https://soundcloud.com/etlerto/benny-hill-theme