Sargassum

Short-billed Dowitcher Foraging in Sargassum on the Wrack Line

By Mia McPherson|January 23rd, 2018|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Short-billed Dowitchers|Tags: adult, brown algae, coastal, dowitcher, dowitchers, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Limnodromus griseus, macroalgae, Sargassum, sargassum seaweed, seaweed, shorebirds, Short-billed Dowitcher, summer, wrack line|

This Short-billed Dowitcher slowly made its way through the Sargassum on the wrack line as I laid in the damp sand photographing it and the other shorebirds that were searching the seaweed for food.

Short-billed Dowitcher On The Wrack Line

By Mia McPherson|December 20th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Short-billed Dowitchers|Tags: adult, coastal, dowitcher, dowitchers, Gulf of Mexico, Limnodromus griseus, Low angle, Sanderling, Sargassum, sargassum seaweed, seaweed, shorebirds, Short-billed Dowitcher, summer, wrack, wrack line|

I photographed this Short-billed Dowitcher and the out of focus Sanderling the day after a storm had pushed mounds of Sargassum seaweed onto the wrack line and the birds were busy looking for food within it.