We were living on our street for more than eight years before I noticed this very interesting bird visiting our neighborhood. At first I thought it was a shore bird that had lost its way, but I soon discovered there were several of these feathered residents.
Off to the books I went and I discovered that the bird was a Killdeer Charadrius vociferus ).
This morning two of them were in and around our yard so I began to stalk them with my Canon SX50 HS superzoom. They were very timid and didn’t want to stay in one place very long.
I was fortunate to get some pictures, but not all of them were as sharp as I would have liked.
Until I saw these photographs, I never appreciated the orange eye ring!
This bird probably thought it was hiding from me by burrowing in next to our somewhat elevated street.
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