This blog is dedicated to the environmental well-being of our Florida coastal habitat.

This blog is
dedicated to the environmental well-being of coastal habitat.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Greater Yellowlegs

Here's another great photo contributed by Lou Newman.
When it's cool and windy along the coast, go to Sarasota's Celery Fields to find a lot of sometime shore birds.
The adult Greater Yellowlegs averages about a foot long, has long yellow legs and a long, thin, dark bill which has a slight upward curve and is longer in length than the head. These birds breed way up north in Canada and Alaska, but like our human "snowbirds", come south for the winter.