Birds Feeding at Low Tide
at Point Isabel, across from the Golden Gate Bridge
How the avocet feeds...
The great egret hunts in the rocks.
Something (an eel?) is caught. It fights back.
Wash it down. Rest.
This is the snowy egret. It hunts by stirring up the water with its foot.
Greater yellowlegs and an avocet with snowy egret
A yellowlegs with a gull, a spotted sandpiper...
Grumpy looking long-billed curlew, yellowlegs, avocet
More curlews.
Old coots and dowitchers.
A gull finds something old, rotten and yummy.
Unfortunately, these pictures from February 2008 show, still, evidence of the oil spill in November 2007.