Took it out this morning for a test run, so far you’re right!

This picture perfectly encapsulates the personality of sanderlings hahaha

Amazing little birds, and so hard to get a good picture of! Great work!

Beautiful composition!

Very cool! Thanks!

This is actually a condition called “angel wing”. It’s a malformation of the most distal joint in the wing caused by a poor diet, usually because the bird has been fed a high carbohydrate diet (bread) by humans in a park. Unfortunately not uncommon in Canada Geese. Good teaching example!

This is so interesting! Would you mind explaining how you determined the age of each feather stage?

That’s an exceptionally pretty junco

Wow! Fantastic picture

I’ve never spent any significant time around any but the brown pelicans, I sort assumed all pelicans just dove to fish hahaha

Awesome picture of a awesome bird

Something to consider is a hybrid. It certainly looks like a Ruddy with its short sharp tail and white butt, but you’re right the face is a little off. Could also be mid molt or something to that effect