Every spring, hundreds of thousands of shorebirds migrate through the Grays Harbor estuary, on the Pacific Coast in Washington state, where my hometown of Hoquiam is located.
I wrote about the shorebirds (among other things) in my Morning Pic blog a couple of times over the past few weeks.
https://steemit.com/morningpic/@cliffagreen/3nnhpy-morning-pic
https://steemit.com/morningpic/@cliffagreen/6xfdf1-morning-pic
This shorebird is likely a least sandpiper, one of two dozen species that move through the area. It is the world's smallest shorebird: it weighs only about 0.7 ounces. I found it feeding along the Hoquiam River all by itself a few weeks ago.
It uses that pointy bill to probe into the mud for invertebrates.
Outside of the Morning Pic, you can read more about the shorebirds, and the Grays Harbor estuary, at http://www.fws.gov/refuge/grays_harbor.
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These are some truly astonishing photographs, @cliffagreen.
Thank you! Those little shorebirds are hard to catch; they scurry!
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