We’ve been gone for a couple weeks on a family vacation to Orange Beach, Alabama. We love it there. We sit on the beach a lot and typically do a daily walk of two or three miles. I saw lots of shore birds there many of which I found hard to ID. Here’s some examples:

Your garden variety laughing seagull. Please correct any ID that you think is wrong.

A small colony of seagulls. (I love collective nouns for animals of all different types.)

A bigger colony of seagulls and other various types of shore birds.

More laughing seagull? Maybe.

A brown pelican lording over other birds.

A protected sea turtle egg nest. They have always had them in Orange Beach but we saw lots more than years previously. I guess that could mean more sea turtles are nesting or that they are identifying nesting sites that were missed earlier. I don’t know.

A crab playing possum on the beach. I thought it was dead but when I got too close it took off.

Pelicans on patrol, flying low!

Another patrol!

Google lens says a Ruddy Turnstone, doesn’t sound right to me.

Google lens says Sanderlings??? I kind of doubt it.

Linking with Saturday’s Critters