ID please? Duck?

Shot at San Elijo Lagoon north of San Diego.

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Well, they are not ducks

peregrineflier wrote in post #11760047
Well, they are not ducks

Any idea what they are?

I`m going to guess juvenile Long-billed Dowitchers

K6AZ wrote in post #11760065
Any idea what they are?

No, but I will confirm Jeff's ID after looking them up

Jeff is probably right.

Agree about dowitchers. I have seen them doingthis at San Elijo when they are concerned about a raptor, they hunker down in teh water making them less attractive to teh raptor. Just before Christmas I was photographing waders / ducks when a peregrine did a fly by harassing everything and teh dowitchers went into 'deeper water' and hunkered down. I think I posted a photo of them with some stilts, unfortunately I was too busy admiring teh peregrine to photograph it

nc_killie wrote in post #11760173
Agree about dowitchers. I have seen them doingthis at San Elijo when they are concerned about a raptor, they hunker down in teh water making them less attractive to teh raptor. Just before Christmas I was photographing waders / ducks when a peregrine did a fly by harassing everything and teh dowitchers went into 'deeper water' and hunkered down. I think I posted a photo of them with some stilts, unfortunately I was too busy admiring teh peregrine to photograph it

That explains it. I caught a Kestrel around the same time and he was looking in that direction. Thanks for the ID, for someone from Virginia these are quite strange.

neat shot