Semi-palmated Plover: York County, Maine, USA, September 2024 — I went to the beach yesterday to see if the shorebird migration has reached us. Lots of Semi-palmated Plovers and Sandpipers but no Sanderlings yet. Still on their way I guess or they hopped over us. I sat on the sand for a while to see how close the plovers and sandpipers would come to me in my bright yellow triking shirt and hat. They came close. Sony a6700 with the Tamron 50-400 Di iii zoom at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my (momentarily messed up) bird and wildlife modifications (I had been researching a setting for a follower and did not get my modifications set back correctly, so this was taken at an uncharacteristically slow shutter speed of 1/160th.) Processed in Photomator.