Birds
Egrets
Great Blue Herons
Cormorants
Cormorants take-off (and land) like a plane. They need to slap the water with their webbed feet to gain speed. This one (and the other one) are collecting material for building nests.
Martin Van Buren sideburns or Bernie Sanders hair?
Note the distinguished white hairs on the back making it look like a tuxedo
Oyster Catchers
Oyster Catchers mate for life
Other Birds
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawks (in our backyard)
Acorn Woodpecker (in our backyard)
Whimbrel
Black Phoebe
Sandpiper or Sanderling?
Long-billed Curlew
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit