Monday, March 26, 2018

Ft Desoto County Park: 2-27-18




Black-bellied Plover, preening




Eating




These are non-breeding adults visiting for the winter






The males look like their name when on their breeding grounds in the high Arctic tundra



Dunlin, also in non-breeding winter plumage as they migrate through on their way to their breeding grounds in the Arctic and in Greenland.
 
Sanderling on the left and a Marbled Godwit feeding behind.



Male Dunlins also sport a black belly in their breeding plumage




Ring-billed Gull, appropriately named




Preening




Our 2nd most common gull




Scratching












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