{"id":23178,"date":"2015-04-29T05:21:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T11:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=23178"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:02:19","slug":"a-semipalmated-sandpiper-foraging-in-a-tidal-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2015\/04\/29\/a-semipalmated-sandpiper-foraging-in-a-tidal-lagoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Semipalmated Sandpiper Foraging In A Tidal Lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SemipalmatedSemipalmated Sandpiper foraging in a tidal lagoon – Nikon D200, handheld, f6.3, 1\/1250, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 400mm, natural light
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I’m sharing a simple Semipalmated Sandpiper image today that I photographed at Fort De Soto’s north beach back in May of 2009.<\/p>\n

I didn’t see Semipalmated Sandpipers often there and only when they were migrating because they winter further south than where I lived in Florida and they breed in the lower Arctic regions from western Alaska to Labrador.<\/p>\n

The word “semipalmated” refers to their half webbed toes that help them walk on mudflats.<\/p>\n

It dawned on me while going through images to put into my new galleries that I had never posted a Semipalmated Sandpiper<\/span><\/a> image here on my blog. I think they are cute little shorebirds.<\/p>\n

Life is good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Semipalmated Sandpiper photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sharing a simple Semipalmated Sandpiper image today that I photographed at Fort De Soto’s north beach back in May of 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,25,704,2000,3693],"tags":[4004,4039,4021,3695,4136,3997,530,4017,992,3694,4891,274,165,4140,3996],"class_list":["post-23178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-florida","category-fort-de-soto-county-park","category-pinellas-county-florida","category-semipalmated-sandpipers","tag-adult","tag-beach","tag-bird-photography","tag-calidris-pusilla","tag-foraging","tag-lagoon","tag-migration","tag-sand","tag-sandpipers","tag-semipalmated-sandpiper","tag-shore","tag-shorebirds-2","tag-spring","tag-tidal-lagoon","tag-water"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t