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#BirdOfTheDay | #BirdBuddies | #blackbelliedplover & #commontern

I'm not sure these are buddies but they are definitely different species. A plover drops in on a tern. #birdphotography #birdsofmassachusetts #gooseberryisland
A Black-bellied Plover, in transition from breeding to winter plumage, has landed on a small rock occupied by a Common Tern. The plover's wings are raised showing black wingpits. The tern is facing away but turned back, bill open, probably complaining about space invasion.
September 8, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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A pair of #Stunday Common terns
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Two birds in flight. White with light brown on their backs and the back of their wings. Black mask.
July 19, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #RockSolid any bird captured, perched on or standing by rocks or on a rocky surface. Here is a Purple Sandpiper. #purplesandpiper #bird #birdphotography #birdsofmassachusetts #gooseberryisland
A purple sandpiper stands on a rock, head turned to the side for a factial profile. The bill is two-toned with orange near the head, and just a bit droopy.
May 3, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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Harlequin Ducks chillaxin' in the waters off Gooseberry Island. #bird #birdphotography #harlequinduck #birdsofmassachusetts #gooseberryisland
Two drakes with a trailing hen swim together from right to left across the frame.
April 8, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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Surf Scoters - charter members of the Funny-looking Duck Club.

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A Surf Scoter drake faces the camera with his black body, white forehead, and weird black & white & red & orange bill. A scoter hen emerges from the briny deep, behind the back of the drake with his bright white nape. Two scoters facing one another. The bird on the left has a white wash on the nape, along with the other markings of an adult hen.
February 28, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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Horned Grebe with its bright red eyes. #hornedgrebe #bird #birdphotography #birdsofmassachusetts #gooseberryisland
February 25, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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Something got stuck!

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[Note: No grebes were harmed during the taking of these pictures.]
February 19, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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Horned Grebe butt. #birdbutt #bird #birdphotography #hornedgrebe #birdsofmassachusetts #gooseberryisland
December 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Long-tailed Duck hen taking a dive. I can *never* predict what will be popular on social media but I really like the abstract image caught in Photo 3. I've never frozen a dive at that moment before. #longtailedduck #bird #birdphotography #birdsofmassachusetts #gooseberryisland
Female Long-tailed Duck is swimming toward the camera. Her brown cap descends to her bill, dividing her white head in two. A female Long-tailed Duck swims right to left across the frame. She is about to take a dive, though there is no indication in her posture. Her brown wings are raised a bit, exposing white flanks. A split-second later, she is halfway into her dive. On the ends of her wings and half her body remains above the surface of the water. There is water cascading off her short tail.
December 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Perhaps Black Scoter hens are attracted to the drake who scoots away the best.

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A male Black Scoter is scooting toward the bottom right corner of the fame. Three other males and a female go about their business.
December 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Red-throated Loon about to take a dive. It spent 95% of its time with me underwater.

#redthroatedloon #loon #bird #birdphotography #birdsofmassachusetts #birdsofwestportma #gooseberryisland
A Red-throated Loon, in its black, white, and gray winter plumage, is swimming away from the camera, looking right. The black and white patterned back is on clear display.
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Two White-winged Scoters celebrate bright sunny weather on November 20.

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November 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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The Scoter cousins: Blackie, Surfie, and Whitey.

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Male and female Black Scoters, taking a break from looking at one another. He with a black body, black head, and black bill with a large bright orange knob. She with a brown body, nape, and cap, along with white cheeks, white neck, and black bill. Female Surf Scoter on the left with three male Surf Scoters. The males were NOT getting along. Male White-winged Scooter, the swoosh duck!
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Funny-looking duck season is underway. Long-tailed Duck butt! #bird #birdphotography #birdbutt #longtailedduck #gooseberryisland #westportma
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Black-bellied Plovers visiting the southern tip of Gooseberry Island in various stages of molting. Bonus photo-bombing Spotted Sandpiper and Short-billed Dowitcher. #blackbelliedplover #bird #birdphotography #gooseberryisland #birdsofwestportma #birdsofmassachusetts
Black-bellied Plover I dunno. A first year? A bird further in molting? A Black-bellied Plover at the bottom left of the frame, with a Spotted Sandpiper flying by in the upper right. A Black-bellied Plover stands on the right, facing away from the camera. The head and neck of a Short-billed Dowitcher pop up from behind a rock on the left side of the frame.
August 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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A deer in the path on Gooseberry Island — watching, then slipping back into the brush. Grateful to have caught the moment.

#deer #gooseberryisland #wildlifeencounter #coastalmassachusetts #naturevideo #ambientnature #fieldrecording #naturewatching
June 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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A Piping Plover at golden hour.

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A photograph of a Piping Plover running on sand covered by a thin layer of water at golden hour.
May 24, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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This hen is flirting with a drake. Let's call him "Drake". Then she paddles over to this other drake, called "Kenduck LaMer", who scares Drake off with a vicious rap. Then Kenduck proceeds to gloat. Shameful!

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After she did a bill up, followed by his bill up, she La Donna e Mobile's over to this other male who scares the first one away. "My what a puffy breast you have, I'm so impressed", thinks the hen. "Enough already", thinks the hen. "Oy vey, enough already", thinks the hen.
March 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Droplets from a crashing wave frame a Brant at the causeway to Gooseberry Island. #brant #goose #bird #birdphotography #westportma #birdsofmassachusetts #gooseberryisland
A brant, taking a break from feeding in the choppy waters, looks toward the camera through droplets from a crashing wave.
February 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Golden hour sunlight illuminating the towers at Gooseberry on a recent hike.

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A photograph of the World War II-era spotting towers on Gooseberry Island in Westport, MA, lit by golden hour sunlight. Some of the island's phragmites reeds fill the foreground. .
November 28, 2024 at 5:56 AM
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Clouds cleared just in time for sunset out at Gooseberry Island in Westport, MA this past Saturday. Not bad for a (manual) phone shot, thanks to Halide.

#photography #landscape #sunset #gooseberryisland #westport #massachusetts
A photograph of sunset over the waves at Gooseberry Island, with a series of rocks in the foreground leading towards the setting sun.
November 26, 2024 at 5:26 AM
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Red-breasted Merganser at Gooseberry Island.

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A photograph of a Red-breasted Merganser swimming atop blue water.
November 21, 2024 at 3:20 AM
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A Black-bellied Plover wading at Gooseberry Island in Westport.

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A photograph of a Black-bellied Plover wading in, and reflected by, shallow water, with a small cluster of rockweed behind it.
November 9, 2024 at 5:55 AM
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Sandworm trails cutting across the rill marks in the sand at Gooseberry Island at low tide.

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A low-angle photograph of rill marks left by waves on the beach at Gooseberry Island, with some trails from sandworms cutting across several of them.
November 8, 2024 at 4:31 AM
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A Brown Creeper perched on a rock next to the crevice it was poking around in for insects.

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A photograph of a Brown Creeper perched on a large rock, with a sliver of blue sky behind.
November 6, 2024 at 3:12 AM