Our efforts in attracting birds paid off handsomely long about midnight on this day of our photographing adventure. We set up in a field alongside the road near a couple of logs for bird perches. You need to remember that this happened in early June and the days were very long here at 64.5 degrees north. The sun barely set...it dips below the horizon (well, at the below the hills to the north of us) a little bu 1:30-1:45 am and is back up again by 3:00 or 3:30 am. By 11:00 pm the sun is very low and is mostly just sliding along near the horizon and the low angle light is a special time to photograph.
Our Golden Crowned Sparrow above is quickly replaced by a Lapland Larkspur who poses for us.
Then the star of the evening/morning appears, the Semipalmated Sandpiper. This fellow make a continuous sort of call that can go one for minutes, apparently with taking a breath.
I tried to get a video of this guy making his endless, repetitive call, but all I got on the soundtrack was the wind noise in the microphone.
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