Two is a crowd, or is it?

Here is a ruddy turnstone (brown with orange legs) and a sanderling. I've read that sanderlings are very protective of their feeding territory, i.e., their stretch of the beach - at least from other shore birds. But these two birds don't seem to mind each other. Perhaps, because they each have their own feeding niche so one doesn't compete with the other.

"Sanderlings are easy to find on sandy beaches from fall through spring. Pick a beach with a low, gradual slope and walk along the water’s edge. Look for small shorebirds running back and forth in sync with the waves—these are likely to be Sanderlings. While other shorebirds such as plovers and Willets may feed alongside Sanderlings on these outer beaches, this is truly the Sanderling’s domain; these plucky birds often aggressively defend their feeding territories at water’s edge from other shorebirds." - allaboutbirds.org

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Holly Beach.

This is a scene from Holly Beach, Louisiana, on the Gulf of Mexico. The birds are various gulls and terns.

"Holly Beach, also known as Cajun Riviera, is a sandy beach in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, where you can camp, fish, and enjoy the Gulf of Mexico." - wikipedia.org

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Beach anybody?

Here's a couple of ring-billed gulls and a sanderling at Holly Beach, Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico. It looks relaxing.

"Although it is considered a typical large white-headed gull, the Ring-billed Gull has been known to hybridize only with smaller, black-headed species, such as Franklin's, Black-headed, and Laughing gulls." - allaboutbirds.org

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Sanderlings resting on the beach

135mm, Camera in APSC-mode

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Sanderling

I took this photo at Holly Beach, Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico.

"When threatened by a Peregrine Falcon, Sanderlings fly in a compact flock that maneuvers erratically over the ocean. Whenever you see a flock of shorebirds abruptly take flight all at once, scan the skies to see if a falcon is the cause of the sudden alarm. In their escapes, individual Sanderlings may occasionally dive right into the water." - allaboutbirds.org

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The day's bird sketch. #sanderling #birdart #pencilsketch #drawingnature

RT@emma_penning@twitter.com
Worldwide, #Sanderling feed on large variety of invertebrates, but in the #WaddenSea they primarily rely on Brown Shrimp, #DNAmetabarcoding of #faeces shows.
This is remarkable, given the large diversity of available prey in the Wadden Sea.
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#Sanderling are such wonderfully joyous birds, always make me smile ☺. Here with a bonus dead Conger eel!

Sanderling.

It's fun to watch sanderlings racing the waves.

"The Sanderling’s black legs blur as it runs back and forth on the beach, picking or probing for tiny prey in the wet sand left by receding waves. Sanderlings are medium-sized “peep” sandpipers recognizable by their pale nonbreeding plumage, black legs and bill, and obsessive wave-chasing habits." - allaboutbirds.com

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Sanderling

I found this bird on the Gulf of Mexico, at Holly Beach. The sanderling was busy trying to catch the waves ... not really unlike the rest of us.

"One has only to consider the life force packed tight into that puff of feather to lay the mind wide open to the mysteries - the order of things, the why, and the beginning." - Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), The Wind Birds

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