A little change of pace for today,
… a Honey Bee in the garden.
Honey Bee
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White-faced Ibis
Things were pretty quiet on the birding front at Reifel this afternoon. That is until later in the afternoon …
… when a White-faced Ibis flew into the southwest pond. A fairly rare bird for this area. It is the first one I have seen and photographed and a new addition to my life photo list.
It spent a fair amount of time with it’s head tucked in snoozing,
… but would occasionally get active doing some preening and stretching.
It even struck a few nice poses with it’s head up.
The White-faced Ibis was eventually joined by a couple of Yellowlegs and a Dowitcher.
Bonus bird at the end of the day on the way out was this Eastern Kingbird.
Ruddy Turnstone
This afternoon it was back to the Tsawwassen Ferry causeway for the Grey-crowned Rosy-finch that had eluded me on previous attempts and a Ruddy Turnstone. On arriving and speaking to some birders already there, the finch had not been seen.
The Ruddy Turnstone on the other hand,
was busy foraging for food amongst the seaweed,
… and did not seem concerned with the birders and photographers at all.
At one point it went through the motions as if it was going to cough something up.
The Ruddy Turnstone eventually made its way down to the water.
… where it was bath time.
Not often you find yourself having to back up while photographing shore birds. This particular bird was more than cooperative and made for a great afternoon.