red knot

Bécasseau maubèche - Calidris canutus - Red Knot

first-winter Red Knot at high tide on the Humber

Some of the Red Knot that winter on Morecambe Bay in NW England have taken to roosting on the sloping sea wall beside the Ulverston to Barrow coast road in Cumbria at high tide whilst the mudflats are covered. When they first arrive they can be very twitchy, as here, when traffic passes just a...

Birdwatching from my car again today. I had just pulled over to look at some Brent Geese when several hundred Knots landed just a few meters away.

Bando de Maarico de papo vermelho na Praia de Sepetiba Rio de Janeiro RJ se preparando para retornar ao rtico.

A rather rare bird for Romania (let's say about 10 records per year). I spotted this one on September 6th and I found it again on September 9th, in the same place.

I'm posting this one so a full bodied shot is included in my gallery.

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Not a common visitor to Barbados

Apologies for my absence from the gallery. Just over 4 weeks ago the monitor on my computer went the way of the dodo and it's taken until now to get a replacement. Although I was still able to use the laptop it's painfully slow when it comes to the internet and looking through everyone's photos...