Black-bellied Whistling Ducks

red-brick road circle
Black-bellied Whistling Ducks
neighborhood lake

Dunlin

washed-up seagrasses
decaying beach carpet
balancing Dunlin

American Oystercatcher

Mullet Key beach foam
American Oystercatcher
runs from the tourists

Sanderling

morning sun
under the pier
Sanderling

White-rumped Sandpiper

White-rumped Sandpiper
Skyway Bridge in the distance
unnoticed

Great Crested Flycatcher

hot May afternoon
Great Crested Flycatcher
in the cool shade

Limpkin

a sorrowful wail
it's not a drowning woman
a Limpkin preening

Blackpoll Warbler

above the circle
of an excavated mound
a Blackpoll Warbler