Given all the sad news and images out of the Gulf lately, particularly of oil-covered fauna like birds, I thought I’d highlight this reader-submitted photo of two happy and healthy Western sandpipers – as a reminder that there are still some things right with the world.

This photograph is from Flickr member SigmaEye, a regular contributor of beautiful images to our Flickr pool. Submit your photos to our pool too! We feature them regularly on the Range blog.

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HCN Reader Photo: Western Sandpipers

by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, High Country News
May 27, 2010

<h1>HCN Reader Photo: Western Sandpipers</h1> <p class="byline">by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, High Country News <br />May 27, 2010</p> <br /> <!-- RTT removed image (77602) --> <p>Given all the sad news and <a class="external-link" href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/oil_reaches_louisiana_shores.html">images</a> out of the Gulf lately, particularly of oil-covered fauna like birds, I thought I’d highlight this reader-submitted photo of two happy and healthy Western sandpipers – as a reminder that there are still some things right with the world.</p> <p>This photograph is from Flickr member <a class="external-link" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sigmaeye/4623483638/in/pool-1116803@N25">SigmaEye</a>, a regular contributor of beautiful images to our Flickr pool. <a class="external-link" href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1116803@N25/pool/">Submit your photos</a> to our pool too! We feature them regularly on the Range blog.</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/blogs/range/hcn-reader-photo-western-sandpipers/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=100613&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/blogs/range/hcn-reader-photo-western-sandpipers/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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