A beautiful Christmas day prompted some light early birding up-island on the Vineyard. The Waskosim’s Rock Preserve gave up a very small Field Sparrow in the open woods. Later on, acting on a tip about a white-winged gull among the shoreline rocks at Squibnocket Beach (see Vineyard map, but the #21 marker is only approximate), I found the tide way out and the sun warm enough to travel light. No special gulls in sight, but a single Tree Swallow and a winter-resident flock of about forty-five Purple Sandpipers. These guys are easily one of my favorite avian photo subjects. I just can’t get enough of them, especially in the kind of light we were lucky enough to have this afternoon. A Christmas treat. Have a look.
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