24.9.18 - Salinas de San Pedro
I'd seen an odd Black Tailed Godwith a few days earlier in the corner of the first stop off pool but I was never successful in getting near for some decent images, today its again in the same location but the sun angle is wrong so I'm not too interested, in any case the last time I'd tried to get a low angle shot I landed up in an altercation with a reserve staff member so I'm still looking to keep in the good books with the reserve, I decide to move on.
Now I'm at the location where Little Terns breed during the summer I decide just to sit, wait and enjoy the sights and sounds of the salinas, then in fly's a Black Tailed Godwit from further down the pool probably the same one seen earlier, this time the Godwit lands on its own terms quite near with the sun angle being just about right.
Not having to use stealth creeping about too get close the Godwit happily carries on on feeding, it slowly gets closer and closer, I amazed that the occasional jogger docent send the bird scuttling to the other side of the salinas which always seems to be the case when I'm wheeling about a big camera lens. From time to time lorries pass on the adjacent road casting the colour red on to the water, in one or two of the other images the reflection is green, not photoshop or anything sneaky like that.
After a very slow start to the morning I get some decent images of a wader that has always seemed to have evaded me in the past by being too distant.
Time to try my luck further on
Black-tailed Godwit
Now I'm at the location where Little Terns breed during the summer I decide just to sit, wait and enjoy the sights and sounds of the salinas, then in fly's a Black Tailed Godwit from further down the pool probably the same one seen earlier, this time the Godwit lands on its own terms quite near with the sun angle being just about right.
Not having to use stealth creeping about too get close the Godwit happily carries on on feeding, it slowly gets closer and closer, I amazed that the occasional jogger docent send the bird scuttling to the other side of the salinas which always seems to be the case when I'm wheeling about a big camera lens. From time to time lorries pass on the adjacent road casting the colour red on to the water, in one or two of the other images the reflection is green, not photoshop or anything sneaky like that.
After a very slow start to the morning I get some decent images of a wader that has always seemed to have evaded me in the past by being too distant.
Time to try my luck further on
Black-tailed Godwit
The next four images show some interesting behaviour.
As the Godwit was feeding, another Black Tailed Godwit landed quite close further down the pool, as it got nearer this particular Godwit started calling and displaying by hunching down in the water lower and lower until it was almost submerged.
Eventually the other Godwit was seen off by a jogger and normal feeding activity resumed
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