Bar-tailed Godwits at the Wadden Sea of Montijo
February 23 2012
Dear reader!
That's how beautiful the beach of Montijo
looks during the tide
The sea exposed also the fishing grounds and for this hour
many birds had been waiting, because only now they can pick all the tidbits which the sea left behind:
A far distance I discovered a huge group of Oystercatchers, Turnstones which are busily walking around and many other waders, which I could not identify from this distance. But I did not make the mistake to go more close to them. No photo in the world is worth to disturb them. I just enjoy the beauty of this nature, the warming midday sun and of course the overflight of this Caspian Tern
Only its movement, which I recognized intuitively, showed me the presence of this well camouflaged Whimbrel:
The more I am watching I also discover near me birds as this Common Ringed Plover, which is marching through the seaweed or
this resting Greenshank and
a beautiful Grey Plover, both of them will soon move northwards:
Well and whom do we have here? A group of Knots and in the same moment relatively near by
also three Bar-tailed Godwits show up and
calmly are starting
foraging:
Very cautious and always
most careful
these elegant Waders directly in front of me
walked along the Wadden Sea! Matchless beautiful and unforgettable moments! - And after I never was able to come that close, I could not withdraw any photos, but showing them all to you: 
In the next chapter the spectators have the word! 
Best regards
Birgit Kremer