ruddy

Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres morinella) Sexes similar.

Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres morinella) Bathing in Aransas Bay.

Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres subsp. morinella) Sexes similar.

Taken at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline, Arrowhead Marsh (Oakland, CA, USA). If we're being honest, Ruddy Duck females are not high on my beauty contest winners. But they are part of nature, and thus have their own charm, and are just as beautiful to photograph as much...

This photo was taken in the Nantes Castle Mote in France. Ther were around 4 of them. Lovely coloured Heinz variety duck.

Three Buddies

Pounding his chest with his beak and splashing the water up. Is this a courting ritual.

Taken at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline (Oakland, CA, USA) at about 25m. I think I've seen a Ruddy one other time, but also at a fair distance away. We may be seeing them more often than that but mistaking them for grebes with the naked eye at these kinds of distances.

I caught this little guy just as he finished his bath.

Ruddy Ground-dove (Columbina talpacoti subsp. rufipennis) Male, species sexually dimorphic. Bosque dl Ro Tigre Lodge, Osa Peninsula, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica. About 1 km east of the town Dos Brazos de Ro Tigre. Pacific secondary rain forest at ca. 130 m (427 ft) elevation.

These guys are always hanging where the water is moving at the reserve.

When I first saw this bird I was amazed how weird it looked. Different markings for sure and I didn't think I would find a name for it! Low and behold, it did have a name...LOL! I learn something new everyday!

Here is a female Ruddy duck out of the same group that the drake was in. What I don't understand is why this group is still here in Tennessee, when their Summer range is in the Northwest, at least that is what my field guide says.

This female ruddy was doing a lot of diving so I thought I would put in a funny picture of her dive.

A common but very smart species.

Finaly we had some snow.

Searching for food over the sands of Palm Beach, Noord, Aruba.

They have come all the way up in the north!! There was a big group of a dozen birds

Thanks to MarkVanWyk for taking myself and Moose to all the happening places ( the dump, graveyard, rattlesnake infested parks) and helping me get six lifers(calliope,ruddy duck,swainsons hawk,Clarks nutcracker,Red naped sapsucker ,Wilsons Phalarope)on this trip. Well worth the payment of...