I recently saw the willet (Tringa semipalmata, formerly Catoptrophorus semipalmatus) described as "an inelegant and heavily built shorebird". Inelegant? How dare they?!
Indeed, I'm impressed with what can be accomplished with such a limited colour palette.
We saw—and heard, for these are quite vocal sandpipers—willets almost everywhere we went on Cape Cod: in the marshes, on the beaches, and perched on almost anything available: posts, fences, benches, rose thickets, and occasionally trees. They were perhaps our most constant companions, and while Ellie and I fished, Jessa photographed willets calling, foraging, preening, and just resting. Enjoy.
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No flying Willets? They kept hidden their most attractive plumage...
True, that wing pattern is both diagnostic and aesthetically pleasing, but what our current camera offers in reach, it lacks in speed. Birds in flight are not its forté.
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