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Curlew Sandpiper - Calidris ferruginea Expand text

I hope it was in fact this species, but I have to admit that I am not sure. Curlew sandpiper was so different from other birds, that it rived my attention but only for a moment, unfortunately. It was posing for a second and then disappeared. But it was enough to create its gallery and with more than one photo, as it is still in case of an osprey. In terms of weight and wingspan it is alike dunlin or sanderling.
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Another trip to the Polish sea during the period of bird migration resulted in creation of the bar-tailed godwit gallery. Of course, there were also other birds feeding at the beach. Among dunlins, common greenshanks, common ringed plovers there was also a curlew sandpiper. Better photos were taken, more interesting than previous ones, and the gallery has been rebuilt.
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During the search and waiting for the broad billed sandpiper, a series of photos of spotted curlew sandpiper were also made. Despite many meetings with this bird (also outside Poland), it has never been possible to photograph the Curlew Sandpiper in the mating dress. You can take such photos when photographing in the tundra, so in the spring / summer in the northern part of Siberia, because this is where its breeding grounds are. Nevertheless, the photos taken at the end of August 2020 in Mikoszewo introduce a great variety and improve the quality of the presented photos of this species on my website. This should be noted in the news.
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Our previous attempts to photograph Eurasian Curlews were always related to dawn, in the morning. And, since the scenario of the birds' behavior always repeated itself and it was difficult to get photos in good light, something has to change in our operation. I decided to sit in the shelter from noon to dusk. I wonder if Curlews frequent the reservoir during the day and feed on it. To find out you have to watch from the shelter and check. As I planned so I did. Already on the very approach to the shelter a pleasant surprise. Several charadiiformers dabblers took flight at the sight of me. As it turned out a very short one, because they made a small circle and sat between me and the shelter few dozen meters away. The first pictures were taken just like over our sea during the autumn bird migration. This lasted a minute or two, because it is necessary to enter the shelter, because it is for the Curlews that I came here. For a few hours of waiting in the shelter, almost only the diarrheas appeared in front of the lens: the variable, the curlew and the sandpiper. During those few hours of waiting, I had a whole range of light and weather variability. From steel-contrast sunshine to a rainy downpour to, at the end of the day, a beautiful soft yellow light. In this light, the Gray heron, one of my favorite species, joined the ranks of photographed birds. Interesting photos of all these mentioned species are produced, so this text is common to all the mentioned species. Well, at a rather unusual time, a lot of interesting photos were created, introducing enough changes in the galleries to hit all the photographed species to the news on my website. For the first time in my life I photographed charadriiformes from shelter. They were almost all the time with me. Around 6:30 pm, the light was low enough that I decided to stop photographing at this point. After packing up for a while, I leave the chat room walking in the shallows towards to the car. Suddenly I hear a familiar voice, which for several days has always announced the arrival of Curlews. Birds always landed with making their characteristic sound. I turned around and they are! All seven of the Curlews, by now birds that had been observed for probably over a month. They landed on an island far away from me. A commemorative documentary photo emerged, which I added, for the time being, to the end of the Curlew gallery. The birds stay there exclusively from dusk to dawn.
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