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FLORIDA GULF SHOREBIRDS, GULLS & TERNS : Shorebirds are those cut little things we see at the beach when the most humans are gone. They probe away at the mud with their bills for food as the tide goes out, sometimes scurrying in and out of the shallow water with the waves. The two largest groups of shorebirds are plovers and sandpipers. Plovers tend to appear like they're walking horizontally, close to the ground. Most have short, straight, stubby bills. Sandpipers often appear more upright and have longer bills. Field guides list about 60 species these birds in the Eastern U.S. Often, they're impossible to tell apart, especially in the winter when their feathers are blandly colored. Many grow richly colored feathers for the spring migration and breeding. The Seagulls in this gallery are Laughing Gulls whereas the Herring Gull is the one we usually see at beaches, garbage dumps and everywhere else in the Northeast. Terns are slender gulls that dive into the water for food. The aptly named "common tern" is most common here in New England, while the Royal Tern seems to be more prolific along the Florida Gulf

FLORIDA GULF SHOREBIRDS, GULLS & TERNS

Atlantic Puffins on Machias Seal Island, Maine : IF YOU LIKE PUFFINS - TRY MY NEW WEBSITE - www.thepuffinman.com My two trips to Machias Seal Island in Maine last summer were both incredible experiences. For a little over an hour on each excursion, I stood in a wooden blind with a chance to interact with and photograph these birds along with their cousins in the Alcid family, the Razorbill Auks. In June the puffins were laying and incubating their eggs which were hidden under mud in the rock crevices. In early August, many of the Puffins had departed after their PUFFLINGS had hatched and had grown enough to fly off. The photos of the birds with fish in their bills were all from the August trip, when they were catching herring,flapping the water off their wings and dropping down to give their pufflings a tasty, if not salty meal. If anyone is either a birder, photographer of any level, or none of the above, I can’t think of a better way to spend the sum of $100.00 for this tour. I took Bold Coast Tours http://www.boldcoast.com/ out of Cutler Harbor. Andy Patterson provided superb leadership as a skilled naturalist and boat pilot. The tours didn’t end upon leaving Machias Seal Island. On the way back to Cutler, we circled other islands to get closer to several species of seals that live on the rocks.

Atlantic Puffins on Machias Seal Island, Maine

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CHECK OUT MY NEW PUFFIN- ONLY WEBSITE: http://www.thepuffinman.com

In addition to Puffins I take pictures of other birds, "wild" animals from squirrels to tigers, and beautiful landscapes here in New England. My October Fall Foliage images are in the slide show above this box . I'll be taking a break from photography until I head to Florida during the winter to shoot herons, egrets and other wading birds.
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