This Lesser Yellowlegs was posing for some photographs at Boat Meadow Beach the other day. I love his yellow legs and feet! (Click on blog link for other photo.)
Beautiful bird, don’t you think? I can’t decide which photo I like better… what do you think?
From US Fish & Wildlife Alaska
“The Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) is a shorebird (sandpiper, specifically) with long yellow legs and a relatively long neck. It’s an elegant bird that people describe as both “dainty” and “slender”; certainly not a species you would expect to migrate tens-of-thousands of kilometers a year from the northern boreal forests of Alaska and Canada to the wetlands and coastlines of Central and South America and the Caribbean.”
https://alaskausfws.medium.com/lesser-yellowlegs-f2c4a465e0a0