The last week has been fairly quiet on the photography front, so I went looking through my library to find something to post that I hadn’t shown yet. Which is when I realized I’d done a whole day trip out to the coast in April that I’d never written about!
This was another result of a migration alert on BirdCast, which I mentioned in a prior post. I have an alert set for the Aberdeen / Grays Harbor area, and when it pinged in late April I decided to head down and see what kind of shots I could get.
My first stop that day was the Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge. I timed it to arrive shortly before high tide, when any migratory shorebirds would be closest to the walkway. Sadly the tide was not particularly high, so the birds were not terribly close. Even with 850mm worth of reach I wasn’t getting any shots I was happy with.
After driving all that way I was determined to get better shots though, so I looked at my options. Westport Light State Park, on the southern entrance to Grays Harbor, was close by and I figured there would be beach access. Also, hopefully, birds. So I drove around the harbor and it turned out I was right on both counts. 🙂 There was a flock of Dunlin busy with lunch when I arrived, and they were happy to ignore my tripod and I as I shot away.
Gear: Nikon Z 7II, Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3 + 1.4 Teleconverter
