Because of the distance and the fog when I took this this
morning I didn’t realize that I was also getting a second image from the
reflection on the water. This was taken on Beaver Creek just before it flows
into the ocean at Ona Beach State Park. The bird is a Red-necked Phalarope, but
because it is a juvenile it lacks the red neck plumage from whence it gets its
name. From what I have read it’s
possibly on its migration route from Northern Canada or Alaska to the Southern
Hemisphere where it will winter at sea. I believe we saw this same bird in the
same location last evening. Not sure
what he is doing all by himself, I would have expected to see him in a
migrating flock.
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