This morning I had to check to see who - or what - was on the little "islet" where the cormorants congregate. There was quite an assortment of birdlife - two cormorants, seven black ducks, one great blue heron (it's been a while since I have seen one of those), and one yellowlegs (the small bird in the center of the above shot), a kind of sandpiper. I think it was a Greater Yellowlegs (there's also a Lesser Yellowlegs) because I had heard its distinctive, fairly loud, deew. deew. deew call not long before.
I never would have known these birds were there if I hadn't had my binoculars with me, so it pays to carry them when visiting the marsh. You never know what you'll see!
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