The weather was just barely good enough today to risk a trip down to Barnegat Light to see what waterbirds were around. The skies were pretty overcast so the light wasn’t good, and the number of fishermen and walkers on the jetty and pleasure boats in and around the inlet kept all of the really interesting birds (harlequins and eiders) too far out at sea to even try for a photo. But there were a lot of great shorebirds on the jetty, and some day I may even forgive them for being SO far out on the jetty that I had to brave a very long walk (hop, jump) along the rocks way way beyond the concrete walkway to get the shots…
Dunlin
Purple sandipiper
Ruddy turnstone