After sighting the American Avocets on our walk in Broomfield, I started looking for Avocet chicks since I had seen them there on previous visits. I didn’t find any. Instead, I found this Killdeer
that seemed particularly aware of us but didn’t give an alert or leave the area. That inspired me to start looking for chicks, but I didn’t see any for quite a while. Eventually, I sighted this little guy who stood out in the dark-green foliage.
Apparently he hadn’t mastered the art of camouflage as well as his fellow chicks, which turned out to be quite a bit closer to us than he was.
Most of the chicks were good enough at hiding themselves that my Canon R5 wouldn’t focus on them, so I ended up with a lot of blurry shots of foliage. Still, I ended up with a couple of good shots like this
and this.
I’ll never know if other chicks were so good at camouflaging that they just disappeared, but it certainly wouldn’t surprise me if there were.