Wednesday 24 October 2012

Sanderling (Calidris Alba)

I was fortunate enough to catch up with these little fellows on a bright sunny afternoon on the beach off Holme Dunes NWT. as usual they were running along at the edge of the tide, they went off along from me. I thought it better to stay put and wait and sure enough they came back and this bird came quite close.

They were adopting the very distinctive dashing style in front of the breaking waves.

Pictures taken with Canon 7D and 400mm f5.6 lens.




7 comments:

Chris said...

Simply sumptuous Mike... When we do have them, they are a bit more reddish ;-) Excellent shot you got and my fav is the last one... We are still having some sandpiper over here and curiously quite a lot of rare species, like I saw a ruff today!!!

Mike Randall Bird Photography said...

Cheers Chris. Thanks for the info it is always interesting to here what you get out in Iceland. I will post Ruff next then!

Anonymous said...

Lovely set of images, as indeed have been all the images from your North Norfolk trip. The Lapwing photos in your last post were superb :)

Mike Randall Bird Photography said...

Thanks very much David, very kind comments.

Dartford Warbler said...

I have just found your blog and I am enjoying your beautiful photographs.

Mike Randall Bird Photography said...

Thank you Dartford Warbler, I will be visiting your site.

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