Shorebird Possible Killdeer - Photograph

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I took those photographs at Southport Beach in Fairfield, CT this past week.

Killdeer - Photograph

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This is 1 of 4 posts of photographs that I took at Lakeview Cemetery in New Canaan, CT this past week.

Posts 1 and 2 show this stunning looking bird I was able to photograph (for the first time). It is a Killdeer and is in the Plovers family of birds.

You can see it doing its "broken wing act" in my second blog post.

This bird (and the few others I saw) were making the deet-deet-deet call sound.

The first photo is my entry for the following:

Wild Bird Wednesday
I'd Rather Be Birding
Camera Critters
Saturday's Critters

Killdeer - Photograph

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This is 2 of 4 posts of photographs that I took at Lakeview Cemetery in New Canaan, CT this past week.

In the second photograph, this Killdeer is doing its "broken wing act." I wondered why this bird was fluttering its wings as it crouched low to the ground: now I know. This bird does a ""broken-wing" act, in which it flutters along the ground in a show of injury, luring intruders away from its nest."