1805_0510 Hudsonian Godwit
Last shorebird shot for now, and it goes back three years, when I was able to approach this Hudsonian Godwit on foot along the shore of Reed Lake. Unlike the more commonly seen Marbled Godwit, this bird stops only briefly in our area, during its impossibly long migration from the southern tip of South America to its breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic and Alaska. It is reputed to fly thousands of miles without stopping, some of it over open ocean. Birds are amazing!
I have a new set ready for tomorrow; today I'm off on a combined supply run and bird shoot. Meanwhile I'm trying to get the last of my garden planted - everything happens at once in Saskatchewan. And I'm involved in another video project this summer, making a series of short films about the wild prairie ecosystems here, My friend George Tsougrianis of Overtime Communications in Swift Current will be here for several weeks, beginning Monday, and we hope to get a good percentage of our shooting done over the next two to three weeks. Will try to keep an ongoing presence on Flickr during this period, but I may be absent some days. Am pushing very hard for 36 hour days, but so far having no luck convincing the authorities to help me with this.
Photographed at Reed Lake, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2018 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
1805_0510 Hudsonian Godwit
Last shorebird shot for now, and it goes back three years, when I was able to approach this Hudsonian Godwit on foot along the shore of Reed Lake. Unlike the more commonly seen Marbled Godwit, this bird stops only briefly in our area, during its impossibly long migration from the southern tip of South America to its breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic and Alaska. It is reputed to fly thousands of miles without stopping, some of it over open ocean. Birds are amazing!
I have a new set ready for tomorrow; today I'm off on a combined supply run and bird shoot. Meanwhile I'm trying to get the last of my garden planted - everything happens at once in Saskatchewan. And I'm involved in another video project this summer, making a series of short films about the wild prairie ecosystems here, My friend George Tsougrianis of Overtime Communications in Swift Current will be here for several weeks, beginning Monday, and we hope to get a good percentage of our shooting done over the next two to three weeks. Will try to keep an ongoing presence on Flickr during this period, but I may be absent some days. Am pushing very hard for 36 hour days, but so far having no luck convincing the authorities to help me with this.
Photographed at Reed Lake, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2018 James R. Page - all rights reserved.