The fall sandpiper migration was in full swing. The smaller birds are solitary sandpipers, Tringa solitaria. The larger ones are semi-palmated sandpipers, Calidris pusilla. They feast on the mud shrimps on the tidal flats before continuing their migration south.
 
 
 Wilson's plover, Charadrius wilsonia

Double-crested cormorants, Phalacrocorax auritus

Great blue heron, Ardea hreondias

Black-throated green warbler, Setophaga virens
 
Common raven, Corvus corax

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