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Black-necked Stilt with chicks
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Black-necked Stilt with chicks

What the heck is going on here? Well, the adult stilt - with the long red legs - is kneeling down to offer the chicks cover in my presence. The four gray legs represent two chicks beneath her, and the trailing third pushed his way in soon after I snapped this frame. I didn't even notice how close I'd come to the family because I was scanning the marsh for phalaropes, but I paused to capture a few frames when the opportunity presented. It would have been fun to have a shot of the three chicks orbiting the adult, but I didn't want to stick around and stress the birds more than I already had. The birds need to be more important than the shot, particularly with youngsters involved.

Hayward Regional Shoreline, Alameda County, California, 5/25/20
Canon 600mm f/4 IS II on EOS 1DX Mark II
1/2000 at f/5.6, ISO 800

  • Eared Grebe
  • Dunlin
  • Variable Oystercatcher (NZ endemic)
  • American Avocet
  • Ring-necked Duck
  • Black-necked Stilt
  • Red-necked Phalarope (breeding female)
  • Western Sandpiper
  • Lesser Scaup
  • Rusty Blackbird (1 in collection of 9)
  • Black-necked Stilt with chicks
  • Short-billed Dowitcher (2 in series of 2)
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Sanderling
  • Tricolored Heron
  • Dunlin
  • Whimbrel
  • Pectoral Sandpiper
  • Sanderling
  • American Oystercatcher
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