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  1. Greater Yellowlegs winter plumage

    Greater Yellowlegs winter plumage

    I uploaded a winter LeYe the other day, here is the big brother :-)
  2. Inelegant Landing, Black-headed Gull

    Inelegant Landing, Black-headed Gull

    A composite of nine images, covering about 1 second from the first to the last. I was surprised to see that the first part of the body (except the legs) that touched the water was the throat area!
  3. Lesser Yellowlegs winter plumage

    Lesser Yellowlegs winter plumage

  4. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

    Unfortunately backlit
  5. Black-bellied Plover PC303836

    Black-bellied Plover PC303836

  6. Semipalmated Plover PC303846

    Semipalmated Plover PC303846

    They seemed really to love that thick, heavy mud.
  7. Black-headed Gull PC304077

    Black-headed Gull PC304077

    Unfortunately backlit, it was west of me and during the afternoon.
  8. Black-headed Gull PC303987

    Black-headed Gull PC303987

    This European species is a rare visitor, which was discovered in Barbados two days ago.
  9. Juvenile Little Blue Heron PC283530

    Juvenile Little Blue Heron PC283530

    It has just started developing the bluish feathers in a couple of places.
  10. Hybrid Little-x-Snowy PC283517

    Hybrid Little-x-Snowy PC283517

    This bird has both the elongated neck feathers of Little Egret (another photo shows there to be two) and the shorter filamentous feathers typical of Snowy. By the way, I only saw the insect in front of it when looking at the photo in the PC.
  11. Greater Yellowlegs flight PC283675.jpg

    Greater Yellowlegs flight PC283675.jpg

    I have other photos of the same bird standing which to my mind proves the bill being long enough that Lesser Yellowlegs is excluded.
  12. Least Sandpiper breeding plumage

    Least Sandpiper breeding plumage

    These birds do not breed here but this is an early return migrant. Unfortunately, it was in strong back light, so not what could have been achieved if the light had been behind me.
  13. A heron and an egret.jpg

    A heron and an egret.jpg

    Nearer bird is a snowy egret and more distant is a little blue heron immature.
  14. Snowy Egret

    Snowy Egret

    Shorter neck plumes than the hybrids from the same date
  15. Hybrids Little x Snowy Egret

    Hybrids Little x Snowy Egret

    The right hand bird is very clearly one of these, with both long and intermediate filaments at the neck. The next one also seems to be one, except less certain. The left hand bird only is included because behavior made me think these were members of the same litter.
  16. Ruff feeding

    Ruff feeding

    Ruff is considered a rare bird in Barbados where this is from.
  17. Hungry Heron

    Hungry Heron

    This Green Heron had good success with his hunting
  18. Great Egret

    Great Egret

  19. Least Sandpiper

    Least Sandpiper

    One of the first birds I saw when stopping the car at this site.
  20. Eurasian Collared Dove

    Eurasian Collared Dove

    Drinking at the edge of the (freshwater) pond
  21. Scaly-naped Pigeon

    Scaly-naped Pigeon

    At the edge of a pond, probably wanting to drink as it is a dry period.
  22. Ruff

    Ruff

    Presumably a male is the local consensus. This bird and two female (who usually occur together) have been touring our island during the last two weeks - and we are on the "wrong" side of the Atlantic!
  23. Least Sandpiper

    Least Sandpiper

    This looks like a bird in active moult
  24. Western Sandpiper eating

    Western Sandpiper eating

  25. Western Sandpiper

    Western Sandpiper

    This is a bird with long enough bill that it cannot be a semipalmated :)
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