Recent Posts Tagged With 'sandpiper'

• A "song" for the holidays

  Posted on Monday December 28th, 2009 at 15:23 in Photography, birds, Finch, nuthatch, heron, wild birds, bluebirds, bufflehead, kingbird, sandpiper, say's phoebe, pipit

  Nuthatch posing on an open pinePipit bobbing on a stoneSay's Phoebe taking its timeAnd a Sandpiper looking so aloneEverybody knows that herons like to hunt for fishAnd berries the bluebirds takeThe trees have a kingbird and a finchWhile buffleheads s...

• Solitary

  Posted on Monday September 14th, 2009 at 12:39 in Photography, birds, wild birds, sandpiper

  It was many, many times I heardMy birding friends telling meThat there exists a sandpiper, a kind of birdBy the name of SolitaryAnd this bird lived with no other thoughtThan to elude being seen by meIt was seen at the river and I went to the riverI f...

• A Tern of Fortune

  Posted on Tuesday August 25th, 2009 at 15:02 in san joaquin, sandpiper, black tern

  Our birding woes continued to haunt us. Having failed at finding the Solitary Sandpiper last August 15th, two more species of its family made our lives a bit miserable lately. On both occasions we had those “maybe we did, maybe we didn’t” situa...

• "Life is like a flock of gulls..."

  Posted on Monday January 26th, 2009 at 07:13 in birds, birding, gulls, salton sea, sandpiper

  “You’ll never know what you're gonna get."South end of the Salton Sea. We just pulled into the corner of Lack and Lindsey Roads. There were cars along the edge of the narrow dirt road some 20 feet above the shoreline. Birders from the San Bernard...

• A Lotta Bonelli

  Posted on Wednesday October 29th, 2008 at 20:19 in birds, birding, nuthatch, heron, bonelli, sandpiper, redstart

  As you will recall, my 85th lifer for the year 2008 was a Red-breasted Nuthatch which my wife and I saw at Galileo Hills last Oct. 18th. Unfortunately, we weren't able to get some pictures of the said bird. So when it was reported that one was sighte...