These plovers are always surprisingly large to me, perhaps since I've most often seen the much smaller snowy and semipalmated plovers. This guy was hanging out with a handful of other shorebirds at Pillar Point Harbor. I have yet to get a really good shot of one of these, and while I was attempting to do that this one decided enough was enough, and he sprinted away. Well actually he sprinted right in front of my in order to get over to some rocks.
Magnificient photos! Plovers are very similar to Sanderlings, no?
ReplyDeleteGreat shots! Speaking of Semipalmated Plover, I just saw our first one for Western Australia. He was a long way from home!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Muge! Sanderlings and plovers are fairly similar in their look and behavior (both being shorebirds), but in this case the black-bellied plover is larger than a sanderling.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Richard -- that's fascinating about finding a semipalm in Western Australia! amazing that it made it there!