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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