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Migrating Least Sandpiper at Red Rock Lakes NWR

By Mia McPherson|July 16th, 2016|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Least Sandpipers, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: alkali flats, alkali pond, Calidris minutilla, fall migration, foraging, Least Sandpiper, migrating, muddy, sandpipers, shorebirds|

I photographed this migrating Least Sandpiper in the same pond as the Wilson's Phalarope chick at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge but on different days.

Wilson’s Phalarope Chick at Red Rock Lakes NWR

By Mia McPherson|July 13th, 2016|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana, Wilson's Phalaropes|Tags: alkali flats, alkali pond, chick, foraging, hunting, juvenile, phalaropes, Phalaropus tricolor, prey, shorebirds, Wilson's Phalarope|

I was photographing a Wilson's Phalarope chick and it was in fact the youngest phalarope chick I had ever seen!