Our wetlands are getting busier as we speak with fall migrants and overwintering birds coming to join our year-round resident species. Here are a few photos I took yesterday at Salines d’Orient near Le Galion. This salt pond, with its large areas of mudflat, provides plenty of food for shorebirds, including fiddler crabs and snails. This set of photos includes a variety of birds: ruddy turnstone, lesser yellowlegs, short-billed dowitcher, black-bellied plover, yellow-crowned night heron, semipalmated sandpiper, least tern and killdeer. If you want to know which is which, download The Incomplete Guide to the Wildlife of Saint Martin for free and look them up. It’s perfect practice for your next birding trip to your local salt pond. The download is here.
