This lone seagull had his pick for a seat at Boat Meadow Beach in Eastham while waiting for the storm brewing over Cape Cod Bay. Always love those seagulls…
Category Archives: Cape Cod Birding
Red-Throated Loon At Coast Guard Beach On Cape Cod.
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?
Love All Of The The Sanderlings On The Cape Cod Beaches.
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.”
Beautiful Bluebird At Fort Hill In Eastham On Cape Cod.
Gorgeous Long-Tailed Duck At Rock Harbor On Cape Cod.
We were having a picnic lunch at Rock Harbor when I spotted this beautiful Long-tailed Duck diving for food in the harbor.
Did you know that “The long-tailed duck, formerly known as the oldsquaw, is a medium-sized sea duck that breeds in the tundra and taiga regions of the arctic and winters along the northern coastlines of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.” That sure is a long way to come!
Beautiful bird, don’t you think?