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The Bar-tailed Godwit is a rather plain, but quite large wader, more or less confined to marine habitats around Britain’s coasts.
Birds arrive from late summer and on into early winter from their arctic breeding grounds, favouring low-lying coasts with a muddy or sandy substrate. Their winter dress is pale greys and browns and they have a long, very slightly upturned bill, which is pink at the base.
The Wetland Bird Survey estimates a wintering population in Britain approaching 30,000 birds with two thirds spending the winter months on The Wash in eastern England. The tideline is the best place to observe Bar-tailed Godwits feeding, and at high tide they gather in tight flocks to roost.
I found it fascinating that these birds have the remarkable ability to flexibly curl the top of their beak. Amazing. :))
Early Conrail leased anything they could get for power. CN units were everywhere. BAR power was also around, but with a smaller fleet, since it was a smaller RR. BAR 87 & 83 probably got paired up often up in Maine, but it was a big deal to catch them together on this Eastbound at Goodman Street in Rochester, NY on May 10, 1978. I should have paid more attention to that Frisco box car too.
UP LDG51 rumbles past Gold Bar Canyon along the Colorado River near Moab, Utah after departing the potash mine on its return trip up the Cane Creek Branch. The branch was built in 1962 to serve the newly opened potash mine and plant, then owned by Texas Gulf Sulphur. The Rio Grande contracted Morrison-Knudsen to build the entire branch including the 1.3-mile-long tunnel through Bootlegger Canyon.
Bar-headed goose | Anser indicus | Siliguri, Gajaldoba | 2022 | Sony Gear | f 5.6 @ 1/4000 | ISO 640
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Geopelia humeralis. Maleny Queensland. I was on the ground trying to get a shot at a little bird nipping in and out of the bushes, turned around and this guy was standing in the middle of the path. Two quick shots...a couple of joggers came round the corner...and it scarpered.
(Limosa lapponica)
Not many times you get the opportunity in December in Northumberland to photograph both species of Godwit
Loe Bar beach is a half mile sand and shingle bank that separates The Loe, Cornwall’s largest natural freshwater lake, from the sea.
Within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Loe Bar beach originally formed the mouth of the river Cober which led to a harbour in Helston. However, by the 13th century the bar had cut Helston off from the sea and formed The Loe. (Visit Cornwall, 2024)
Loe Bar, Cornwall.
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View through the main arch at Bootham Bar in York, North Yorkshire, England.
This first part of this current upload were taken on St. Patrick's Day 2022, after the parade was over. Each images was with the oldest lens I own, a Tamron - 24.0-135.0 mm f/3.5-5.6. Although it might not be quite as sharp or as quick to focus as some of my prime lens, it is small, light and an easier, general purpose lens, to carry in my hand for a few hours. (All shots were hand held). Unsharpness was sometimes due to the focus picking up the bars as the main subject, instead of the subject, or perhaps to these aged hands, in an unsteady age.