Plovers (black-bellied, snowy, semi-palmated and golden) Egrets (including reddish), Herons, phalaropes, terns and habitat changes
IMG_9707 - 2008-08-06 at 07-41-24
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Low water in the slough brings many species together
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Black-necked Stilt, Devereux Slough, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Yellowlegs
IMG_9709 - 2008-08-06 at 07-41-48
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Low water in the slough brings many species together, yellow flags from a restoration project in the background
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Black-necked Stilt, Devereux Slough, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Restoration, Yellowlegs
IMG_9716 - 2008-08-06 at 07-42-48
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Devereux Slough
IMG_9719 - 2008-08-06 at 07-44-26
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Low water in the slough brings many species together
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Black-necked Stilt, Devereux Slough, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Reddish egret, Yellowlegs
IMG_9741 - 2008-08-07 at 07-39-41
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Devereux Slough
IMG_9748 - 2008-08-07 at 07-42-15
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Devereux Slough
IMG_9425 - 2008-08-07 at 08-08-04
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Devereux Slough
IMG_9426 - 2008-08-07 at 08-08-23
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Devereux Slough
IMG_9757 - 2008-08-07 at 08-12-59
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Pond at COPR, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_9764 - 2008-08-07 at 08-21-49
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Post - Sands Beach, Sands Beach - COPR, Snowy Plovers
IMG_9770 - 2008-08-07 at 08-22-33
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Sand height on the beach is about at it's peak as the wintering plovers start to add to the breeding snowy plover population.
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Post - Sands Beach, Sands Beach - COPR, Snowy Plovers
IMG_9775 - 2008-08-07 at 08-23-39
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Jennifer Storh, the Snowy Plover program director, counting chicks
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Jennifer Stroh, Sands Beach - COPR, Snowy Plovers
IMG_9427 - 2008-08-07 at 08-27-24
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Bush Lupine, Evening Primrose, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_9776 - 2008-08-07 at 08-36-22
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Young Least Tern
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Least Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_9779 - 2008-08-07 at 08-42-42
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Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_9913 - 2008-08-08 at 07-37-44
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Wilson's Phalaropes pictured here. The Red-necked Phalrope haven't come in the large numbers that they did last year. The biggest count I've heard from Mark Holmgrem for Devereux was 30. It was approximated that 3,000 were at the Slough at one time last year.
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Phalarope, Sands Beach - COPR, Wilson's Phalarope
IMG_9917 - 2008-08-08 at 07-38-02
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Phalarope, Sands Beach - COPR, Wilson's Phalarope
IMG_9621 - 2008-08-17 at 17-23-34
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Elegant Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_9622 - 2008-08-17 at 17-23-35
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Elegant Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_9623 - 2008-08-17 at 17-23-36
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Elegant Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_9627 - 2008-08-17 at 17-23-50
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Elegant Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_0202 - 2008-08-17 at 17-29-46
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Elegant Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_0207 - 2008-08-17 at 17-29-48
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Elegant Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_0208 - 2008-08-17 at 17-29-48
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Elegant Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_0210 - 2008-08-17 at 17-29-49
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Elegant Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_0238 - 2008-08-17 at 17-36-14
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Post - Sands Beach, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_0260 - 2008-08-17 at 17-49-04
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Brown pelican, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_9630 - 2008-08-21 at 18-19-44
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Project Budburst, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_9637 - 2008-08-21 at 18-37-39
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Brian Haggerty, Project Budburst, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_9638 - 2008-08-21 at 18-39-32
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Brian Haggerty, Project Budburst, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_0273 - 2008-08-21 at 19-24-59
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Devereux Slough
IMG_0274 - 2008-08-21 at 19-25-16
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Devereux Slough
IMG_0277 - 2008-08-21 at 19-25-41
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Devereux Slough
IMG_0278 - 2008-08-21 at 19-26-33
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Devereux Slough
IMG_0295 - 2008-08-24 at 08-09-59
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Devereux Slough
IMG_0349 - 2008-08-24 at 08-28-28
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Elegant Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_0372 - 2008-08-24 at 08-39-30
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Ruddy Turnstone, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_0379 - 2008-08-24 at 08-40-21
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Black-bellied Plover, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_0380 - 2008-08-24 at 08-40-28
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Black-bellied Plover, Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_0386 - 2008-08-24 at 08-45-47
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Sands Beach - COPR, Signs
IMG_0387 - 2008-08-24 at 08-46-38
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Boats, Sands Beach - COPR, Venoco
IMG_0401 - 2008-08-24 at 08-54-36
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Chicks, Sands Beach - COPR, Snowy Plovers
IMG_0402 - 2008-08-24 at 08-54-36
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Chicks, Sands Beach - COPR, Snowy Plovers
IMG_0417 - 2008-08-26 at 07-19-23
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Devereux Slough
IMG_0464 - 2008-08-30 at 09-45-08
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Devereux Slough, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Reddish egret
IMG_0465 - 2008-08-30 at 09-45-12
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Devereux Slough
IMG_9652 - 2008-08-30 at 09-58-37
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Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_9654 - 2008-08-30 at 10-00-01
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Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_0530 - 2008-08-30 at 10-36-42
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Goldenbush is just starting to bloom while the buckwheat flowers are turnning a rusty brown
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Sands Beach - COPR
IMG_0534 - 2008-08-30 at 11-48-36
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long distance shot of a Golden plover among the Black-bellied Plovers (foreground)