Friday afternoon I got to visit a nearby marsh/wetland reserve, where--for the first time ever!--I spotted a "Wilson's" (so-called)
snipe.

It was hard to get any sort of photo--e & I were separated by stalks & muddles of plants like bog sedge & tule rushes as tall as I am, which sprouted or lay in mounds every few feet between us. But this photo should give an idea of eir camouflage (e *is* the marsh) & eir superb tuck-under- the-arm, snuggly-handbag shape.

#Shorb #Shorbs #BirdNamesForBirds

@loren I had missed the whole shorb start though! Now I’m following both #shorb and #ShorbSeason and will absolutely be calling them #shorbs moving forward! It tickles my brain and I like it. Like calling blueberries ‘bluebs’

Narcissus at the Pool.

#Oregon #Shorb

I spent some time today watching this spotted sandpiper amble along this fallen log, and the scene just struck me as a very pet-store-aquarium aesthetic, so I spent some more time today daydreaming of having a pet spotted sandpiper.

#Shorb #Oregon

Noble little #shorb (spotted sandpiper).

#Birds #Shorbs #Wetlands #Oregon

P. S. I'm pretty sure black-necked stilts are a kind of #Pokemon.

#Shorb #Oregon #GottaBirdEmAll

Mirror, mirror, on the marsh,
Who's the stiltiest stilt by far(sh)?

(Hint: It's the black-necked stilt.) #Shorb #Oregon

I almost didn't see this wonderful #shorb while walking along the marshy pool just beside the lake yesterday. You'd think the cartoonishly yellow legs that gives the greater yellow-legs their name would make it easy to spot them, but, especially under stormy skies, their legs blend right in with the sedges and tule.

Anyway, lovely to find em and later watch em fly out along the edge of the lake as winds picked up and the rain began to fall.

#Birds #Oregon #Wetlands