Closed For Swimming

Reporting today from this past weekend at “closed for swimming for the season” Beach 11 @ Presque Isle State Park, where it’s been a pretty nice year for shorebirds, e.g., as in this view of the “Beach 11 sandbar” w/ Semipalmated Plovers and Thompson Bay in the background:

Semipalmated Plover
Misc. shorebirds in flight
Sanderling
Lesser Yellowlegs in flight
Least Sandpiper
Several Semipalmated Plovers + Least Sandpiper (lower right)
Beach beauty (@ Least Sandpiper)
Least Sandpiper preening
Semipalmated Plover solo II
Trio of Sanderlings

Least Sandpiper hop-flying:

Sanderling III
Least Sandpipers
Sanderling IV
Preening Least Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper (l) & Semipalmated Plover (r)
Sanderling V
LS & S-pP II
Semipalmated Plover solo III
Several Least Sandpipers foraging
Sanderling VI
More misc. shorebirds in flight
Sanderling VII
Least Sandpiper portrait I
In flight: Semipalmated Plover (center) & Lesser Yellowlegs (right)
Least Sandpiper portrait II
Least Sandpipers landing at Beach 11
Yellowlegs
Semipalmated Plover solo IV
Sanderling VIII
Semipalmated Plover solo V
Sanderling IX
Semipalmated Plover solo VI
Sanderling X
Final Semipalmated Plover