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    Bar-tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica) flight Stockton Sandspit NSW Australia
    Canon EOS 7D Lens 400mm L USM ISO400 F87.1 1/1600 available light 13 December 2011 7.44am
    Taken midway through on an early morning session starting at 6.16am at Stockton Sandspit these Bar-tailed Godwits rose in flight as a raptor appeared. Gradually I am building up a series of flight images of the various waders that use this internationally important migrant wader refuge. Bar-tailed Godwits occur around all the Australian mainland and Tasmanian coastline.
    They breed in the northern hemisphere and migrate the 11,000 km from Alaska to Australia ...some birds coming non-stop , the USGS Website has a fact sheet of the biology and migration at: http://alaska.usgs.gov/science/biolo...irds/barg.html . Birds in Backyards also has data at:
    http://birdsinbackyards.net/species/Limosa-lapponica
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    Rod Warnock

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    Nice capture on the flight positions and the provide a nice contrast with the waders. I might crop out the one on the far left if mine.

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    Thanks, Steve for your kind comments. Always a choice as to what to leave in and take out ...in this case I felt that the far left bird served as a lead in and a balance also to te other figures, but naturally others will always view images differently. That is one of the factors that makes us fiddle ewith images.
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