This Red-throated Loon was swimming around at Coast Guard Beach and diving deep for his food. I have never seen one before.He was there for quite a while.
This is a “Non-breeding Adult which is a small loon with a thin bill typically held horizontal. Non-breeding birds have more white on the neck and face than other loons.”
Beautiful bid, don’t you think?
It seems like every time we go to the beach we see lots of Sanderlings scurrying about, whether it be on the ocean side or bay side. (Click on blog link for other photo.)
“This is the little sandpiper that runs up and down the beach ‘like a clockwork toy,’ chasing the receding waves.” I bet you’ve seen many of them as you walk down the local beaches.
Their diet consists “mostly sand crabs and other invertebrates. Feeds on a wide variety of small creatures on beach, including sand crabs, amphipods, isopods, insects, marine worms and small mollusks.”
