This attentive piping plover parent was keeping close watch over its lone chick. It's wonderful to see these birds caring for their ...

The coordinated flight of shorebirds is always fascinating to watch, often seeming as if they have the movements of single organism. Her...

I typically go to the North Shore of Massachusetts for my local shorebird photography, but heading south of Boston down to Plymouth can ...

As I waited for the flock to approach where I was waiting in the sand, this is one of the first sanderlings to come close. A few minutes...

A few years ago I had a wonderful evening spent with a large flock of sanderlings as they settled in to roost along the beach at Parker ...

A few years ago I took a winter trip to Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island to celebrate my birthday. I mostly struck o...

A sanderling giving a nice view of its wing feathers while it preens on the beach at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge.

While working the wet sand for some shorebird reflections in the foreground, a second bird taking flight in the background stole the sho...

I only found a couple of images worth processing from my encounter with red knots back in 2011 . The scaled wing feathers of this indivi...

Inspired by my post yesterday of red knots from one of my initial trips to Parker River NWR, I thought I'd share another bird that I f...

I recently finished reading "The Narrow Edge" by Deborah Cramer which chronicles the migration of red knots across the globe. ...

Wishing you all a happy new year and all the best for 2020!

A semipalmated sandpiper prowling the remnants of a tidal pool behind the Lot 6 beach at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge.

The photo above is another one that made my list of 2019 favorites . I love the color tones provided by the warm sunrise light under a h...

While I was compiling my list of 2019 favorites , this one kept catching my eye. I ultimately did not include it, but I liked how it was...

At the end of the year it's always fun to look back through the photographs I've made over the last 12 months. In 2019, the bulk...

A cool thing about photography is how it can capture a single moment and give it meaning beyond what you may have noticed in real time. ...

It was fun to watch this small flock of semipalmated sandpipers rapidly work over the wet sand left behind by the receding tide along th...

I had a lot of fun watching this family of piping plovers on my first trip to Sandy Point State Reservation for the summer breeding seas...

On my mid-summer trips to see the breeding birds at Sandy Point State Reservation, I was almost always focused on the piping plovers run...