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| Above - South end of the Salton Sea from Poe Road entrance. The sea
was a flat calm with thousands of waders in the shallows and thousands of ducks further
out. The white birds are American Avocets and Black-necked
Stilts. Below - View from Red Hill Landing causeway. The waders in the foreground are mainly Western Sandpipers. |
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Part of a flock of Long-billed Dowitchers on a small lake near to Finney Lake, a site about 12 miles to the SE of the Salton Sea. |
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American Avocet photographed on my last day at the Salton Sea when a strong wind whipped up the surface. |
| Black-necked Stilt photographed when the sea was a flat calm. |  |
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Greater Yellowlegs - Photographed from the car at Red Hill Landing. |
| A small group of Lesser Yellowlegs were seen at Red Hill Landing, but were rather distant. |
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About 100 Killdeers were feeding in a field next to Finney Lake. The Killdeer were feeding along the edge of the field...... |
| ..... while up to 1000 Mountain Plovers were seen feeding in the centre of the field. While not a good photograph (rather distant and with heat haze), it is perhaps one of the scarcer birds found during the trip. |  |
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Western Sandpiper - Huge numbers were seen around the extensive shallows of the Salton sea. |
| Good numbers of Least Sandpiper were also seen. |  |
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Spotted Sandpiper - This individual was photographed from the car while driving around the edge of Finney lake. This species was also seen in the San Diego area. |
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