Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusilla

f7.1 @ 1/2500s, ISO:800, Nikon D3S w 500mm and 1.7X tele-extender

\"Semipalmated Sandpiper,\' Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. These birds forage on mudflats, picking up food by sight and feel (bill). They mainly eat aquatic insects and crustaceans.They are long distance migrants and winter in coastal South America, with some going to the southern United States. They migrate in flocks which can number in the hundreds of thousands, particularly in favored feeding locations such as the Bay of Fundy and Delaware Bay. This species is a rare but regular vagrant to western Europe.

Black Beach, West Falmouth, Massachusetts

09/03/2014