This is straight out of an Audubon painting

Seeing one in the woods is always surreal. Like seeing something you shouldn’t, something old and left over from another time. Special moments for sure!

Took it out this morning for a test run, so far you’re right!

This picture perfectly encapsulates the personality of sanderlings hahaha

Amazing little birds, and so hard to get a good picture of! Great work!

Beautiful composition!

Very cool! Thanks!

This is actually a condition called “angel wing”. It’s a malformation of the most distal joint in the wing caused by a poor diet, usually because the bird has been fed a high carbohydrate diet (bread) by humans in a park. Unfortunately not uncommon in Canada Geese. Good teaching example!

This is so interesting! Would you mind explaining how you determined the age of each feather stage?

That’s an exceptionally pretty junco