Sanderling - Crandon Park at Sunset

Posted by Parrothead Pete on Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:12 am

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Don't know the exact type of sandpiper it is, but there were quite a few of them last week (1/1/05) on the sand bars at Crandon Park beach (south side) at low tide right before sunset.

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by Justin C on Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:20 am

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A nice shot.I like the raised leg and the implied movement.
I think a crop off the bottom to a fraction above the reflected dark wing area would work well here or perhaps cropped just above the yellow object in the foreground.

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by E.J. Peiker on Mon Jan 10, 2005 11:59 am

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A great shot of this guy strutting!

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by Michael Dossett on Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:08 pm

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A very nice shot of a Sanderling. Got some sweet light on him. The hunched over look plus the raised foot adds a lot. I think I like Justin's crop suggestion.

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by Alan Murphy on Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:14 pm

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Nice one. I agree that it needs a bottom crop.

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by KK Hui on Mon Jan 10, 2005 7:39 pm

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A nice shot!
Would go for a tighter crop and reduce much of the dead space at bottom.
The partial reflection adds nothing to the image ... :roll:

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by Sandy Mossberg on Tue Jan 11, 2005 5:06 pm

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Neat shot, Mike. I've never seen one at Crandon. Where did you find him? Agree with the bottom crop.

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by Parrothead Pete on Tue Jan 11, 2005 6:19 pm

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Sandy Mossberg wrote:Neat shot, Mike. I've never seen one at Crandon. Where did you find him? Agree with the bottom crop.

Sandy, on 1/1/05 there were a bunch of shorebirds at low tide at the southern part of the beach by the merry go round. You get some really nice sand bars late afternoon and was blessed with short billed dowitchers, willets, sanderlings, royal terns, brown pelicans, cormorants; etc. I wish I could have had my longer lens as these guys move faster than hell.

I've not been back but I would think the low tide andsandbar must be a major attraction for them.