Carolina Wren & Tufted Titmouse

Sunday in the park

singing Carolina Wrens

and Tufted Titmice

Black-bellied Plover

Florida August

just in from Arctic nesting

Black-bellied Plover

Spotted Sandpiper

the morning low tide

exposing a place to land:

Spotted Sandpiper

Belted Kingfisher

storm-cloud silhouette

of a Belted Kingfisher

on the lakeshore snag

Semipalmated Plover

impressionistic:

Semipalmated Plover

with brush-stroke mantle

Least Sandpiper

the Least Sandpiper

running at the water's edge

flotsam camouflage

Cooper's Hawk

the prey is a rat

Cooper's Hawk, the predator

they both have long tails