Flight Practice

Dowitcher in Flight
Originally uploaded by Bill Walker.

This morning Ashok and I went over to Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center and walked out among the shorebirds, trying to capture them in flight. The overcast meant pointing the camera down was best, as with this breeding-plumage Dowitcher. Perhaps our coolest bird of the day was a Peregrine Falcon flying over and spooking several hundred shorebirds into the air all at once.