Down the 'pathways of the sky' from Alaska to Inskip Point. A newly arrived flock of Bar-tailed Godwits rest on a sandbank at high tide.
On the other end of the sand bank there were also small numbers of Eastern Curlews, Grey-tailed Tattlers and Great Knots with the Godwits.
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Alaska is a beautiful place and you captured it well.
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ReplyDeleteI hope have time to stop at my SWF post : in here and here Thanks
Oops! Sorry Bradley - this is Australia the birds have just arrived from Alaska.
ReplyDeleteAmazing! I just love how you captured those birds! Mine is HERE.Thanks! Happy SWF!
ReplyDeleteSea, sand and a beautiful sky with lots of birds make a lovely picture! Happy Sky Watch Friday!
ReplyDeleteit is worth it that you have posted a marvelous photo. as it is really lovely to see it with the sky…
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great photos and that is a lot of birds
ReplyDeleteMikk: What a great flock of birds for your SWF.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful capture. Love the birds.
ReplyDeleteYou get some great visitors up there Mick. Nice to see them. We'll get a few down here too, later. When I look at them I'm always amazed at how they got this far.
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Birds and a big sky always make a glorious landscape! Lovely pics!
ReplyDeletebeautiful shot:) Alaska or Australia - it is the same sky and it just is wonderful:)
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Same here Gouldiae.
ReplyDeleteThanks to all the above for your comments. I'll visit as many of you as I can later on today.
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ReplyDeleteI am impressed that you predicted the arrival of the migrants, and then they turned up.
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Wow! Nice shots!
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I am so glad that i enlarged the photos to see these great birds as i have never seen or heard of them. Amazing
ReplyDeleteThanks again to all for visiting and commenting. Hi Dennis. It's not my skill but rather careful records kept over a number of years by other shorebird enthusiasts and then cumulative records shared.
ReplyDeleteInspired by this and your previous post on migrant waders, I trotted off down to a suitable habitat ... and saw nuttin'. (Well, apart from the usual suspect.) So I'll watch them through your posts. I get a better view that way!
ReplyDeleteOh dear! Sorry for the lack of waders down your way Snail. I am not even sure when they turn up down there and it is certainly early days up here. Although there was a sizable flock of godwits that I photographed in the last post - in excess of 500 birds by actual count.
ReplyDeleteGood stuff! I haven't found any big wader roosts in my area yet. There must be some somewhere, That's one thing Scotland had no shortage of.
ReplyDeleteGosh Mick - we got really excited at seeing four Bar-tailed Godwits at a Wetland Reserve near us recently. Let alone a whole flock - WOW
ReplyDeleteI am always amazed at the distance these birds fly. We have the Canadian geese coming through Salem (Oregon) each year. I love taking their photos, especially time when they have their little babies. Nice photos, thanks for the posting.
ReplyDeleteHi Mosura, it will be interesting to hear what waders you find down your way later in the season.
ReplyDeleteHi Tricia, I had to get my book out to see where the range of Bar-tailed Godwits was. I hadn't even realized you saw them in Britain. The books say it is a different sub-species - lapponica - and we see baueri. So thank you I have learned something new.
Hi Columbo, nice to have you comment. Do you see Marbled Godwit where you live or close by? I was lucky enough to see them during the fall migration out on the coast of Washington State a few years ago when I was visiting there.
this is a lovely shot - well captured.
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