{"id":117415,"date":"2022-08-26T05:29:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T11:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=117415"},"modified":"2022-08-26T07:26:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T13:26:57","slug":"solitary-sandpipers-yesterday-morning-at-bear-river-mbr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/26\/solitary-sandpipers-yesterday-morning-at-bear-river-mbr\/","title":{"rendered":"Solitary Sandpipers Yesterday Morning At Bear River MBR"},"content":{"rendered":"

A species I rarely see.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

I see and photograph Spotted Sandpipers fairly often but for me Solitary Sandpipers are darn close to a rarity, so I was pretty excited to photograph this one yesterday morning at Bear River MBR. My excitement was diminished only slightly when I discovered that none of my photos of this bird were quite as sharp as they should be.<\/p>\n

I don’t understand why they were all a little soft, other than the fact that stuff like that happens to us bird photographers on occasion. Or maybe my old friend Murphy was lurking in the nearby cattails.<\/p>\n

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1\/32<\/em>00, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

I see this species so seldom I know little about them so last night while doing some research I was surprised to learn that of the 85 species of sandpipers in the world,\u00a0only Solitary Sandpipers and palearctic Green Sandpipers routinely lay eggs in tree nests instead of on the ground. The thought of sandpipers nesting in trees kind of blows my mind.<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Their species name,\u00a0<\/span>solitaria<\/em>, refers to their solitary habits in migration, which contrasts markedly with the flocking behavior of most other migrant sandpipers. But yesterday t<\/span>here were actually two Solitary Sandpipers foraging together and they’re obviously migrating so maybe they’re not so ‘solitary’ after all.<\/p>\n

I never did manage to get any high-quality photos with both of them in the frame but this one documents that there were two of them together.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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A species I rarely see. (3 photos)<\/p>\n

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