Wow, what a coincidence since I had just been talking about curlews on my most recent post. We saw a Far Eastern Curlew pulling crustaceans from their holes on the beach. Amazing bird.

Thanks, Eva. I know I’m clogging up the journal with more birds than biking, but I really get a lot of satisfaction from it. The camera’s a ZS70, which seems pretty ideal for a pocket biking camera to me. I’ve started a small trend with it, and now there are at least three other CBers using one also.

Isn’t that a strange name though? I researched it a bit trying to find the origin and came up dry. I did find that the godwits (there are four of them) are one of the greatest long -distance migrants - one of them was tracked with a nonstop 9,000 mile flight; and the Brits thought they were great eating.

Funny! I never thought of it like that somehow.

Thanks, Keith. I was really pleased with this one too. If we had a home I’d frame it and hang it on the wall.

That's a GREAT photo.

Maybe it will, maybe it won't...

Oh, you’re making me homesick. I know that place so well…

I never imagined there could be a creature named a « Marbled Godwit ». Nature (and you) just completely amaze me sometimes.

Thanks!

How awful! I’m being careful since we are flying to Spain on February 22 but now I’ll be even more careful. Thanks for the warning.

Hundreds of them at a small lake not far from home (Eastwood Lake). Took some photos of one huge flotilla of them yesterday.

Hah, we saw our first Lesser Scaup just yesterday.

I hope Rachel's extraction site heals better than mine did last year. I had to have another surgery in the fall and of course more of the same restrictions before it finally healed fully. Good luck!

Wonderful!!