A morning at the beach

Above:  Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola)

Above:  Ringed Plover and Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria)

The following four photos below were taken at Nesseby.  Nesseby map.

Above and below:  Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica)

Above and below:  A banded Redshank (Tringa totanus)

The photos below are from a beach in Vardø.  In the all and all, Vardø was quite a spectacular municipality (this is how it is called in Norway).  Vardø town is located on the island of Vardøya in the Barents Sea, just off the coast of the large Varanger Peninsula.  To get there we drove through quite a long tunnel.   We stayed at the Vardo Hotel which was very nice.  The hotel link is the Trip Advisor link which includes photos of the harbor and hotel.  The hotel has since been newly renovated and the rooms, the lobby, the dining room and the bar area have all been updated.  There are many photos of the food which was excellent, though I don't recall anything like what appears in the photos.  I highly recommend this hotel.  Many of the photos are from winter time when visitors come to see the Northern Lights and birders come to see eiders.  Photo number 17 is a close-up of Steller's Eider (which we did not see on this trip).    

Above and below:  Dunlins (Calidris alpina)

Above and three below:  Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima)

Again, above and below, Dunlin

Above:  Purple Sandpiper and Dunlin

Above and below:  Red-necked Phalarope

I could blame the black eye in the black feathers again, but my photos should be so much better.  We were so close to two phalaropes feeding just at the water's edge.  They were so tame.  This is clearly the fault of the photographer (me); wrong ISO, f-stop, shutter speed, whatever.