Photo of the Day #593: Sandpipers

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A group of sandpipers fleeing from an incoming wave. Photographed at Spring Lake, New Jersey.


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I love sandpipers. My wife and I were down near Kenai one year and stopped to walk on the beach. There was a gull-sized sandpiper skittering along the mudflats. Never saw one that huge, but it was just as quick and lively as its smaller cousins (which were also present).