Western Sandpiper

Western Sandpiper Foraging on the North Beach of Fort De Soto

By Mia McPherson|May 13th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Western Sandpipers|Tags: abundant, beach, Calidris mauri, coastal, foraging, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Pinellas County, sand, sandpipers, shorebirds, summer, water, Western Sandpiper|

This is just a simple post of a foraging Western Sandpiper that I found while working on moving my images from their old galleries to the new ones yesterday.

Western Sandpiper on the Go

By Mia McPherson|May 23rd, 2012|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Western Sandpipers|Tags: adult, beach, breeding plumage, Calidris mauri, Gulf of Mexico, motion blur, running, sandpiper, sandpipers, shore, shorebirds, shoreline, water, waves, Western Sandpiper|

It dawned on me this morning that I haven not posted an image of a Western Sandpiper here yet so I pulled this one out of my archives that I photographed at Fort De Soto as the small shorebird ran in front of me on the shoreline.