Western Sandpiper

Calidris mauri

(L 6.5" WS 14" Wt 0.91 oz)

Summers in west Alaska...winters
along coastal areas along south U.S.

Wetlands north of
Kirby Park, CA

20Dec2012

All my life I have lived and behaved
very much like the sandpiper - just
running down the edges of different
countries and continents, 'looking for
something'.

(Elizabeth Bishop)