Couple of Shore Birds

A ruddy turnstone and a willet, common birds but I like them.

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Nice shots, Stan, and not common for me at all!

Nice shore birds Stan! I don't i have images of these two species yet. i need to catch up.

As Levina said, not common to me either, that's one of the great things about this forum, you can see different birds from all over the world

fantastic detail, especially in the first shot

Since the temp was "0" here this morning, I really envy all your "shore bird" images Stan... nice shots.

Dave

A nice couple of shore birds there Stan, Well done.

I really like the Ruddy Turnstone Stan; that is one beautiful bird and capture.
The Willet is a very nice intermediate sized shorebird too and you captured it very nicely. I think we forget sometimes that common to us may be special to others. I find both of these to be special!
You look like you were pretty close to both birds. I was wondering if those were your knees in the bottom corners of the 2nd image -

Thanks, everyone. Of course I realize that our common birds don't appear everywhere, just as some of the birds found all over never show here. These guys were fairly close, maybe 25 feet, with heavy bushes between us. I had the challenge of finding a hole in the shrubbery that allowed a view of the bird. Then, the large rocks placed along the shore to minimize erosion were partially in the scene. So, my knees weren't in the way at all.