Sandpipers!
These little guys were the original reason we planned our trip.
In late summer, millions of sandpipers stop at the Bay of Fundy
to eat mud shrimp living in the tidal mud flats. After
doubling their body mass, these small birds will catch
favorable wind currents and fly non-stop to South America over
the Atlantic Ocean. These pictures don't capture the scale of
how many birds were on the beach but the Canadian Park Service estimated
that there were 15,000 birds on this small stretch of beach. It was
amazing to watch
thousands of birds fly in unison. They looked like a rapidly
moving cloud.
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