Shorebirds Pillows

Shorebirds is a collection of silhouetted winged beauties of the water.

Early morning at the beach watching sandpipers near the water's edge!

some birds from a lake view, bird heaven.

Life is full of Whimsical Happenings... Lapwing taken from an original drawing and an added life quote by jellygnomes

Royal Terns and sandpipers enjoy the solitude of the Caribbean Ocean on St. Maarten. Royal terns are quite common in the Caribbean islands and feed close to the beach.

Low tide at St. Simons Island along the Georgia coast enables you to walk for miles - seemingly in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

This is my original artwork of a harbor pier with water reflections and shorebirds in flight. The fine art photo was taken along the Florida coast near Tampa Bay.

I encountered a party of eight juvenile Pectoral Sandpipers at the Boundary Bay Wildlife Management Area as September 2018 passed its halfway mark. Like the other shorebirds who normally prefer the grassier, less muddy parts of the beach to forage from, these medium-sized migratory shorebirds did not mind me in their midst. Photographed on a sunny and slightly breezy afternoon on a fairly low high tide that let me walk out a few hundred feet from shore to observe the visiting fauna in close quarters.

The northern gannet is a fabulous seabird to watch as it dives vertically into the sea at speeds of up to 62 mph to feed on mackerel and herring. They thrive in large colonies located on cliffs overlooking the ocean or on small, elevated rock islands. This photograph was taken along the Atlantic seaboard in the gannet's non-breeding range.

Two reddish egrets survey the coastal water of southeastern Georgia near Little St. Simons Island.

A little blue heron takes flight from a Gulf Coast beach.

As a fan of both Shakespeare and shorebirds, this scene might be alternatively captioned "Baird(s) on the Beach." My meeting them in such close quarters was an unexpected pleasure; a small contingent of these tiny migrant sandpipers (all juveniles!) was completely at ease with the photographer in their midst, and continued to feed nonchalantly on aquatic bugs or park themselves on top of the mounds of seaweed nearby. Photographed over the Labour Day 2018 long weekend.

This is my original artwork of an American white ibis taking flight along the marshes of St. Simons Island, Georgia.

A reddish egret flies near the coast of St. Maarten along the Caribbean Ocean coast.

Two great white egrets meet on old dock pilings along the Atlantic Ocean coast. The Fine Art America Watermark will not appear on your finished art. All Artwork is property of the artist (Laura D Young) and may not be reproduced, duplicated, or resold. Copyright is retained by the artist following the sale of the item.

A roseate spoonbill flies past an old dock along the Atlantic Ocean coast in early morning.

This is my original artwork of an American white ibis flying along the marshes of St. Simons Island, Georgia.

This is my original artwork of two grey herons. Grey herons fly in early morning to feed in the ocean marshes. A bird of wetland areas, it can be seen around lakes, rivers, ponds, marshes and on the sea coast.

OBSU ART Nature Series: Osprey in Flight

California brown pelicans Pelecanus occidentalis, San Francisco, California, USA.

Two roseate spoonbills fly amidst ocean waves.

Flamingo

Two California brown pelicans Pelecanus occidentalis, San Francisco, California, USA.

Shorebirds is a collection of silhouetted winged beauties of the water.

A group of sandpipers fly and wade along an old ocean dock against a pink sunset sky. The sandpiper can be found on every type of land surface, with the exceptions of Antartica and the driest deserts

Hundreds of pelicans gather on Lake Chapala in Petatán, Mexico

A sandhill crane takes off from an old dock near Tybee Island, Georgia.

Sandpipers frolic along the Pacific Ocean coast.

This is my original artwork of two roseate spoonbills flying along the Atlantic Ocean coast of central Florida.

This is my original artwork of a great blue heron flying low along a beach on the Atlantic Ocean.

This is my original artwork of two great blue herons greeting the morning mist at a pond in Roswell, Georgia.

digital painting of a pair of gannets

Dozens of American white pelicans gather near a fish processing shed in Petatán, Michoacán, Mexico

Share your love of birds and humour with this Least Tern design!

A western gull Larus occidentalis is stretching its leg and wing while perching on wooden pole, San Simeon, California, USA

Head portrait of a western gull Larus occidentalis.