BajaNomad

Photos of a few shorebirds in Baja

BigOly - 11-24-2013 at 10:13 AM

American Avocet

Black-bellied Plover

American Oystercatcher

Baird's Sandpiper

Black-necked Stilt

Black-crowned Night Heron

Common Gullinule

bajajudy - 11-24-2013 at 10:21 AM

Very nice!
thanks!

DianaT - 11-24-2013 at 10:29 AM

As always, your bird photos are spectacular! I especially like the action with the Oystercatcher. Thanks for sharing these!

Pompano - 11-24-2013 at 02:12 PM

Thanks BigOly, I've always looked forward to viewing your photos of all kinds of birds. I'm a huge bird fan, too, and photograph them whenever I can.

By way of testing my recent re-arrangement of my Photobucket account, I hope you will not mind if I add one of my own shorebird photos. This photo was taken many years ago on an island in front of my home in Coyote Bay within Conception Bay. I know it is an oyster catcher, but not sure if it has any further appropriate name. It has a very unique twittering call. Unfortunately we don't see too many these days.



BigOly - 11-24-2013 at 03:44 PM

Add all the pics you want. It's all good. Your bird is an American Oystercatcher. We get mostly Black Oystercatchers back in Oregon. I'm fooling around with settings also. Here's a Greater Yellowlegs

Skipjack Joe - 11-24-2013 at 11:56 PM

Thanks for sharing your bird pictures. They are always first class.

oladulce - 11-25-2013 at 02:25 AM

Once you start noticing birds, then identifying and learning about them, it becomes 2nd nature to look for them and becomes a part of your life -even for novices like my husb and I.

Walk on the beach when we're visiting the SOC side and it's fun to watch Oystercatcher mates and hear them talk to each other. One of my favorites are the Kingfishers who very cool and rare in our area.

Terns and Ospreys and Frigates and Gulls are a part of our daily lives as well a couple of Great Blue Herons who hang out on palapas of neighbors up the way.

But those pain-in-the-butt Shorebirds! Plovers and Sandpipers and Dowitchers and Turnstones- those dang things all look the same and life's too short to keep going back to the bird books to get 'em straight. So until they start wearing name tags I will avert my eyes.
...until of course, one makes an unusal peeping or a new call and I'll have to go look it up again.

Meany - 11-25-2013 at 06:21 AM

Great Shots. Love the Oystercatcher.

Russ - 11-25-2013 at 07:10 AM

Here's a pair I shot

BigOly - 11-25-2013 at 07:48 AM

outstanding shot Russ!

Russ - 11-25-2013 at 07:52 AM

Coming for you I'm truly flattered. Thanks!
I love the reflection and action of your yellowlegs shot!


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Skipjack Joe - 11-25-2013 at 08:09 AM

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Originally posted by oladulce

But those pain-in-the-butt Shorebirds! Plovers and Sandpipers and Dowitchers and Turnstones- those dang things all look the same and life's too short to keep going back to the bird books to get 'em straight. So until they start wearing name tags I will avert my eyes.



Oh but they are all wearing name tags - "BirdweSee.com".

On Shell Island, in July

David K - 11-25-2013 at 09:11 AM





Vince - 11-25-2013 at 01:53 PM

Excellent photos! I looked for our resident oystercatchers in Coyote Bay a few weeks ago but missed them. They'll be back. Thanks.

Russ - 11-25-2013 at 03:40 PM

CortezBlue - 11-25-2013 at 07:17 PM

San Felipe Sea Hawk taken Labor Day Weekend 2013

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Ken Bondy - 11-25-2013 at 09:13 PM

Great stuff BigOly!!