Long-billed Dowitcher
October 2012 – Fern Hill – Forest Grove, Oregon
A group of 3 Long-billed Dowitchers were probing the shallows in a corner of Fern Hill. We spotted them when we first arrived… and when we left an hour or so later, they were still there… still probing.
Long-billed Dowitcher
These birds spent the summer on the Arctic coast, but by mid-autumn, are in their wintering grounds from the Oregon coast down to Mexico.