The three birds flying together are, from left, a Semipalmated Sandpiper, an American Avocet and a Lesser Yellowlegs. The photo was taken in 2022 on Plum Island in Massachusetts. Avocets are rare on the east coast of the US above Virginia. Their usual breeding and migration area is the US west of the Mississippi River. In the east, they are typically only seen right at the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from the Carolinas over to Texas. The bird in this picture is what is referred to as a vagrant since it was way out of its normal range. It didn’t find a mate that summer but it apparently made some friends.
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Great shot!!!
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Thanks. I was really happy when I found that one of my shots had all three close together. And it did seem like the Yellowlegs adopted this lonesome wanderer that was so far from “home”.
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You’re welcome.
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I hope this vagrant euro the refuge this year…we missed him!
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Another wanderer! Cool to get three different kinds of birds in one shot! Cool that another bird took him under his wing.
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