Image of American oystercatcher

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The combination of weather and time finally intersected today. I was able to go on a kayak based bird survey looking for American Oystercatchers. I am probably going to post to many AMOY, but each one is different and several are banded. The bands were reported by my survey partner. My camera gave me fits today so many are not up to the quality I usually post - so sorry about that. I helped band JL (the one standing on the left hand side a couple of years ago. She fledged a couple of chicks last year, but the horribly high tides this year probably prevented her from fledging this year. CK is a new partner for her.