ruddy turnstone

Tournepierre à collier - Arenaria interpres - Turnstone

Feeding on anglers scraps

Feeding on scraps off anglers

working the wrack at the shoreline

have no idea how i did it, but i am happy. hope you like it.

Turnstone

10 ruddy turnstones, 4 grey plovers and 3 dunlins

Ruddy Turnstone is another long distance traveller breeding in northern Eurasia, Greenland, Canada and Alaska. Either wintering in South America or, as this subspecies (interpres) as far south as Africa and around the coasts of Australia. Aren't birds amazing.

A wonderfully camouflaged, non breeding plumage Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) feeding on the mussel beds on RSPB Titchwell Beach

on our way to a Wool Week event, we saw something moving on the beach. We'd seen loads of these the day before on another beach near the airport. I may share one of those pics later when I've done some editing. But this pic was pretty much ready as taken.

Another bird that appeared all over the island including the accommodation areas.

On the left are two turnstones on the beach, the tattler on the shoreline and two grey plovers and two godwits in the water. On the right behind the three dunlins and the two other turnstones are two great knots and two more godwits.

Our last stop of the day was at Lake Ponchartrain shoreline by the New Orleans University campus. Lake Ponchartrain is actually a brackish, shallow, tidal lagoon or estuary. The campus's Ponchartrain shoreline has a step-shaped concrete sea wall. When we got there, there were several small...