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Birds of Alaska-Updated & Regrouped 2022.1.7

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SANDPIPERS-Godwit, Marbled 2013.5.23#123. I see a few of these Marbled Godwits every year but never seem to get a good photo opportunity. This bird concluded the most memorable shore bird shoot I ever had in Alaska. It started when I observed a strange group of birds flying right at me from the middle of the Inlet. They kept coming and landed about 30 yards from me. They were 16 Bristle Thighed Curlews that allowed me to photograph them for about 4 hours, along with some Whimbrels, Plovers and other shore birds. Just as the Curlews were leaving this Godwit dropped in and landed right in front of me while I was still shooting other shore birds. Cook Inlet south of Anchor river Alaska.
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SANDPIPERS-Godwit, Marbled 2013.5.23#123. I see a few of these Marbled Godwits every year but never seem to get a good photo opportunity. This bird concluded the most memorable shore bird shoot I ever had in Alaska. It started when I observed a strange group of birds flying right at me from the middle of the Inlet. They kept coming and landed about 30 yards from me. They were 16 Bristle Thighed Curlews that allowed me to photograph them for about 4 hours, along with some Whimbrels, Plovers and other shore birds. Just as the Curlews were leaving this Godwit dropped in and landed right in front of me while I was still shooting other shore birds. Cook Inlet south of Anchor river Alaska.

Marbled godwit Cook Inlet Alaska

  • SANDPIPERS-Dowitcher, Short-billed 2013.5.12#288. Cook Inlet near Anchorage Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Dowitcher, Short-billed 2013.5.19#129. Doing a fly about after a Northern Harrier scare. Cook Inlet Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Dowitcher, Short-billed 2014.6.15#114. Near a nesting area. Cook Inlet near Potter Marsh Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Dunlin 2005.5.7#006. A male in breeding color. Homer Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Dunlin 2005.5.7#016. A male in breeding plumage probes the mud along Homer Spit in Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Dunlin 2011.5.10#218. In breeding color probing in Mud Bay, Homer Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Dunlin 2013.5.14#354. A handsome male in breeding color trys to open mussels in Mud Bay, on Homer Spit Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Dunlin and Western Sandpipers 2013.5.13#112. Probing Mud Bay, Homer Spit Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Godwit, Bar-tailed 2009.6.11#008. This male in breeding color was accompanied by a typically larger female. Found in a small tundra pond on the coastal plain of the North Slope Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Godwit, Bar-tailed 2009.6.11#029. A typical breeding pair, the smaller buffy orange male and the larger darker grey brown female on a tundra pond. Coastal plain of the North Slope Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Godwit, Hudsonian. A spring male. Cook Inlet, Alaska. #527.152.
  • SANDPIPERS-Godwit, Hudsonian 2005.5.25#051. A male waiting out a high 30 foot flood tide in Cook Inlet near Anchorage Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Godwit, Hudsonian 2005.5.25#051. A male waiting out the flood of a 30 foot tide in Cook Inlet near Anchorage Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Godwit, Hudsonian 2010.5.27#155. Cook Inlet near Anchorage Alaska.
  • SAndpipers-Godwit, Hudsonian 2010.5.27#197. A large female probing in Cook Inlet Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Godwit, Hudsonian 2013.5.18#799. There are only a few places to find these birds in the spring. We're lucky living in South Central Alaska that Cook inlet is a breeding area.This male in breeding color was all by himself the two days I observed him. Coastal area adjacent to Potter Marsh near Anchorage Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Godwit, Marbled 2013.5.23#123. I see a few of these Marbled Godwits every year but never seem to get a good photo opportunity. This bird concluded the most memorable shore bird shoot I ever had in Alaska. It started when I observed a strange group of birds flying right at me from the middle of the Inlet. They kept coming and landed about 30 yards from me. They were 16 Bristle Thighed Curlews that allowed me to photograph them for about 4 hours, along with some Whimbrels, Plovers and other shore birds. Just as the Curlews were leaving this Godwit dropped in and landed right in front of me while I was still shooting other shore birds. Cook Inlet south of Anchor river Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Greater Yellowlegs 2016.7.2#075. Near Rock Creek, Denali Highway Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Phalarope, Red-necked 2009.5.22#230. Breeding male. Tundra pond near mile 15, Denali Highway Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Phalarope, Red-necked 2014.6.6#205. Tundra pond near the Susitna river bridge, Denali Highway Alaska.
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