Bar-tailed Godwits at the Wadden Sea of Montijo

February 23 2012


Dear reader!

That's how beautiful the beach of Montijo …

… looks during the tide

The sea exposed also the fishing grounds and for this hour …

… many birds had been waiting, because only now they can pick all the tidbits which the sea left behind:

A far distance I discovered a huge group of Oystercatchers, Turnstones which are busily walking around and many other waders, which I could not identify from this distance. But I did not make the mistake to go more close to them. No photo in the world is worth to disturb them. I just enjoy the beauty of this nature, the warming midday sun and of course the overflight of this Caspian Tern

Only its movement, which I recognized intuitively, showed me the presence of this well camouflaged Whimbrel:

The more I am watching I also discover near me birds as this Common Ringed Plover, which is marching through the seaweed or …

… this resting Greenshank and …

… a beautiful Grey Plover, both of them will soon move northwards:

Well and whom do we have here? A group of Knots and in the same moment relatively near by…

… also three Bar-tailed Godwits show up and …

… calmly are starting …

…foraging:

Very cautious and always …

… most careful …

… these elegant Waders directly in front of me …

… walked along the Wadden Sea! Matchless beautiful and unforgettable moments! - And after I never was able to come that close, I could not withdraw any photos, but showing them all to you:

In the next chapter the spectators have the word!

Best regards

Birgit Kremer

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