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Greater Yellowlegs at the wrack line

By Mia McPherson|2021-08-17T08:07:46-05:00March 21st, 2015|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Greater Yellowlegs, Pinellas County|Tags: adult, coast, coastal, Greater Yellowlegs, lagoon, marshes, migration, shore, shorebird, shorebirds, shoreline, Tringa melanolueca, water, wetlands, wrack, wrack line, yellowlegs|

I get excited when spring arrives in Utah and the shorebirds return because they were my spark birds, they are what got me into bird photography

Short-billed Dowitcher On The Wrack Line

By Mia McPherson|2024-01-13T02:48:53-06:00December 20th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Short-billed Dowitchers|Tags: adult, coastal, dowitcher, dowitchers, Gulf of Mexico, Limnodromus griseus, Low angle, Sanderling, Sargassum, sargassum seaweed, seaweed, shorebirds, Short-billed Dowitcher, summer, wrack, wrack line|

I photographed this Short-billed Dowitcher and the out of focus Sanderling the day after a storm had pushed mounds of Sargassum seaweed onto the wrack line and the birds were busy looking for food within it.