Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: Solitary Sandpiper

I spent this morning with friends at Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. Always enjoyable seeing an Osprey, a Bald Eagle and a Red-tailed Hawk. Also a Double-crested Cormorant flying low over the Bow River, a Solitary Sandpiper at the edge of the lagoon (seen above), a Red-breasted Merganser, and a few Wood Ducks (plus the usual, such as Canada Geese, Gulls, Mallards, Common Mergansers, Goldeneye, etc.) It has been a beautiful spring day today - just gorgeous!

A very distant shot, unfortunately! I'm out of practice when it comes to identifying birds, after months of photographing flowers : ). I THINK this is a Solitary Sandpiper, but please correct me if I'm wrong!

I had never seen a landscape like I found one day in my local natural area. A swampy area had dried out, partly because of beaver activity, and the slime had dried into peaks. Actually, it felt quite eerie - almost like being on another planet! There were several Spotted and Solitary Sandpipers feeding.