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Wading birds, Rails, Ibis

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  • Interloper

    Interloper

    An interloper (Long-billed Dowitcher) joins a flight of Yellow Legs over Big Lake.

  • River Ballet

    River Ballet

    Yellow legs balletically alight onto a reed bed floating in the Sturgeon River to feed. St Albert.

  • Friday bird

    Friday bird

    For the second Friday evening in a row while walking the dog I saw an "unusual" bird at the same surface water pond on the edge of a canola field. Last week it was an Avocet, this week a Killdeer, the difference this week was that I immediately went back with my camera. Sturgeon County.

  • Virginia Rail

    Virginia Rail

    A Virginia Rail moving through the reed beds of the Big Lake Interpretive Trail.

  • Solitary and Spotted

    Solitary and Spotted

    Solitary and Spotted Sandpipers share a small Island in the Sturgeon River. Sturgeon County.

  • Spotted Sandpiper

    Spotted Sandpiper

    Sturgeon River, Sturgeon County

  • A small flock of Yellow legs appear to have taken up residence on the Sturgeon River near Ray Gibbon Drive. St Albert.

    A small flock of Yellow legs appear to have taken up residence on the Sturgeon River near Ray Gibbon Drive. St Albert.

  • Taking flight

    Taking flight

    A Yellow legs doesn't appreciate my attention. Sturgeon River, St Albert..

  • Yellow legs

    Yellow legs

    A Yellow legs wades the shallows of the Sturgeon River. St Albert.

  • Sora Rail (Juvenile)

    Sora Rail (Juvenile)

    J Poole Wetland, St Albert, first time this year I have seen one close enough to photograph

  • Silohette

    Silohette

    Two White Faced Ibis streak across the sky over Big Lake wetlands

  • White faced Ibis

    White faced Ibis

    Off in the distance, and steering well clear of me, a white faced Ibis flies over the Big Lake wetlands. For a closer look at these birds check out the "East central Alberta" folder in "Other Alberta Wild Places" (crop)

  • Wilson's Phalarope

    Wilson's Phalarope

    These two birds flew in circles around me as I walked a trail through the wetlands at Big Lake, I think I disturbed their nest in the tallish grass next to the walking trail.

  • Wilson's Phalarope

    Wilson's Phalarope

    A breeding pair in a pool near the Big Lake interpretive trail

  • Virginia Rail

    Virginia Rail

    J Poole Wetland

  • Virginia Rail (Juvenile)

    Virginia Rail (Juvenile)

    This elusive Rail makes a first time appearance (for me) in the J Poole Wetland,

  • Round up

    Round up

    An older juvenile Sora Rail appears to lead the younger off back into the reeds

  • The Elusive Sora

    The Elusive Sora

    Occasionally the Sora Rails will step out the reed banks and present for a good shot, this is a more normal and fleeting view of these elusive birds. J Poole wetland, St Albert.

  • Juvenile Sora Rail

    Juvenile Sora Rail

    J Poole wetland, St Albert

  • Snipe

    Snipe

    A snipe at the base of the viewing platform at Big Lake

  • Juvenile Sora Rail

    Juvenile Sora Rail

    Seen these young ones for the first time this year though the Sora's have been here for many years.

  • Juvenile Sora Rail

    Juvenile Sora Rail

    Riel wetland

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