When you only get to the beach a few times a year, it’s always (for me) a challenge to sort out the shorebirds. Plovers, sandpipers, peeps, all moving all the time. This year we saw many Black-bellied Plovers in various phases of plumage.

Easier for me are the bigger guys, like this Whimbrel and his Willet companion.

No one can mistake these Laughing Gulls when they hear and/or see them.

I’ll leave you with an image of a crab that we found while walking — it’s an Atlantic Ghost Crab. Thanks, iNaturalist