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• Endangered Plovers - November 3, 2008

Spent the weekend attending a wedding at Navarre Beach in the Western Panhandle and paid a visit to a site good for plovers and other shorebirds. We got decent albeit distant looks at both Snowy and Piping Plovers. It's been a while since I've seen both of these endangered plovers almost side by side and I tried hard to get a digiscope pic with both species in it but couldn't. We also had pretty good looks at 3 Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrows, which were really hard to get decent digiscope pics of but one stayed still for 2 seconds while having a bath and I got a grainy but ok shot. The Piping Plover was color-banded.


Snowy Plover Charadrius alexandrinus


Piping Plover Charadrius melodus


Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Ammodramus nelsoni


 

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Thanks for visiting my blog I hope you enjoy my scribbles and pictures. I am an English ex-pat living in the state capital of Florida, Tallahassee. I live in a modest home with my lovely wife and beautiful baby daughter and am currently a student at Florida State University...Go Noles! I either take my pictures with a Nikon Coolpix 4500 hooked up to a KOWA telescope or with a Canon 20D. I shall endeavor to update my blog regularly with accounts of my days in the field enjoying birds, dragonflies, butterflies, moths and other wildlife, mostly in the Panhandle of Florida but occassionally in other parts of the World.
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