{"id":15617,"date":"2025-08-16T06:43:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15617"},"modified":"2025-08-16T06:43:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:43:53","slug":"vacation-critters-gulf-shore-birds-of-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15617","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Critters &#8211; Gulf Shore Birds of Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;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&#8217;s some examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rkMqNR\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54701488661_0fd320e75b.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF0801\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Your garden variety laughing seagull. Please correct any ID that you think is wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rmvvCf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54709699570_7619344653.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF0840\" width=\"500\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A small colony of seagulls. (I love collective nouns for animals of all different types.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rmuY6G\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54709593514_9cbf962340.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF0859\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A bigger colony of seagulls and other various types of shore birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rktbFP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54697929141_317bd603d3_c.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More laughing seagull? Maybe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rkoYBN\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54697108092_159f2bb101_c.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A brown pelican lording over other birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rkXRGd\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54703523496_926d9acf5f.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF0810\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rmtN41\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54709364606_eafb342f25.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF0861\" width=\"500\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A crab playing possum on the beach. I thought it was dead but when I got too close it took off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rmvyxD\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54709709395_79d399e5eb.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC1023\" width=\"500\" height=\"437\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pelicans on patrol, flying low!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rmpzYU\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54708543552_b5eacfe46f.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC1022\" width=\"500\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another patrol!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rkYV48\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54703729913_1ed2f7e43f.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF0814\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Google lens says a Ruddy Turnstone, doesn&#8217;t sound right to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rmpxb4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54708534107_527b73f90c.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF0843\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Google lens says Sanderlings??? I kind of doubt it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Linking with <a href=\"https:\/\/viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com\/2025\/08\/saturdays-critters-609.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com\/2025\/08\/saturdays-critters-609.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Saturday&#8217;s Critters<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;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. 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