Canada (British Columbia)A great way to start 2023! Iona, Richmond BC.
Jan 2 2023
United States (Florida)
Dec 2 2022
immature, winter plummage
Oshawa - An end of the year treat. These coastal birds show up very late in the season in very small numbers, normally along Lake Ontario. I was lucky to find two. They are very hardy and one or two may overwinter in rocky areas that don't freeze. They are notoriously tame. I just waited for them to come to me.
Dec 3 2022
female, immature, summer plummage
Oct 3 2022
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (10)
Tryngites subruficollis
(Near-threatened)
Sep 23 2022
juvenile
Presqu'ile Provincial Park - Gull Island. An uncommon to rare species in the park. They might get one every year or every other year in fall migration.
Sep 30 2022
Sep 23 2022
juvenile, molting
Presqu'ile Provincial Park - Gull Island This bird was a shocker. While checking a few birds on shore I saw bright orange legs from a distance and thought maybe a turnstone but not this time. We look for them in November but in recent years it has been December and still at best an annual rarity. Incredibly early. The bird is molting into its first winter plumage.
Sep 25 2022
Sep 16 2022
adult, molting
Presqu'ile Provincial Park
Sep 18 2022
Sep 16 2022
juvenile
Presqu'ile Provincial Park
Sep 18 2022
Sep 16 2022
Presqu'ile Provincial Park - An uncommon but regular migrant.
Sep 18 2022
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (10)
Tryngites subruficollis
(Near-threatened)
Sep 8 2022
juvenile
Oshawa - Had great fun with a couple of very obliging regional rarities that allowed very close approach. Actually they were the ones approaching us, not the other way around. At times they were as close as a metre. If these birds are ever reported we'd expect to check specific fields, especially sod farms but in this case they were feeding on algae-covered rocks along a beach on Lake Ontario.
Sep 9 2022