Salmon Creek Beach and Bodega Harbor are good places to look for Baird's Sandpipers. Note the buffy head and breast, white-tipped back feathers, long wings (projecting beyond the tail), and black legs.
Saturday, August 3, 2013
A brief stopover
Juvenile Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii), photographed on 3 August 2013. Baird's Sandpipers are uncommon fall migrants in the Bodega Head area. This is just a brief stopover site for them; they'll spend the winter in South America. (Hard to believe, but some individuals complete the 15,000-km journey from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego in 5 weeks!)
Salmon Creek Beach and Bodega Harbor are good places to look for Baird's Sandpipers. Note the buffy head and breast, white-tipped back feathers, long wings (projecting beyond the tail), and black legs.
Salmon Creek Beach and Bodega Harbor are good places to look for Baird's Sandpipers. Note the buffy head and breast, white-tipped back feathers, long wings (projecting beyond the tail), and black legs.
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