We go to the beach often, and I always bring my camera. I shoot anything that moves. I took a couple of photos of these birds in flight.
Sorry that I don't have a good side shot. They have short bills so they aren't sandpipers. They have brown heads and backs, white undersides, and distinctive white stripes on their wings and a white stripe down their backs. This should be a piece of cake.
I looked in our Georgia bird book, that supposedly contains every bird native to or passing through Georgia. Not in there. I went to Georgia's Department of Natural Resources and looked for birds there. Nope. I gave up. Not Pamela. She hopped on her iPad and spent a couple of hours until she came up with the Black Turnstone. The only problem is that the Black Turnstone is only found on the west coast.
It is time to use the power of Al Gore's internets. Anyone?
Sorry that I don't have a good side shot. They have short bills so they aren't sandpipers. They have brown heads and backs, white undersides, and distinctive white stripes on their wings and a white stripe down their backs. This should be a piece of cake.
I looked in our Georgia bird book, that supposedly contains every bird native to or passing through Georgia. Not in there. I went to Georgia's Department of Natural Resources and looked for birds there. Nope. I gave up. Not Pamela. She hopped on her iPad and spent a couple of hours until she came up with the Black Turnstone. The only problem is that the Black Turnstone is only found on the west coast.
It is time to use the power of Al Gore's internets. Anyone?
I just want to know now you cook them.
ReplyDeletePenguins!
ReplyDeleteKilled a hour looking for it at "what bird" no luck. Its the sign the global warming. Is it turtle breeding season on the breaches?
ReplyDeleteThey look like Ruddy Turnstones to me.
ReplyDeleteAgree Ruddy turnstones. Pamela was close.
ReplyDeleteAgree Ruddy Turnstones. Pamela was close
ReplyDeleteThey don't fit a ruddy because the heads on the ones in the pic are black. The ruddys are brown. I found several different pics of the Ruddy to compare to a close up of the birds in flight.... No match.
ReplyDeleteI think their nesting season is over. I think they nest in August and September down here. When we first started going to Jekyll, we saw a lot of tutrle nesting sites.
I'm still convinced they are Ruddy Turnstones. We've seen a million of them. The colors can be different based on age, sex and time of season. They don't breed down south, they breed in Alaska/Canada and come south for the winters.
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