Refreshment

Still in drought, there has been little moisture this summer, but a recent half-inch rain brought refreshment to this little kildeer.

Kildeer

Kildeer

In cow pasture

Southwest Oklahoma

This is one of my favorite birds. I remember following them, as a child, as they walked along the once muddy, hardened ground around the pond behind my grandparents' house, listening to their distinctive call and wondering why in the world they didn't fly away.